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GREENHOUSES 


THAT WE HAVE DESIGNED 
AND ERECTED 


THEIR PLANNING AND 
PLACING; THE MATERIALS 
USED AND THE WAY 
WE CONSTRUCT THEM 


NINTH EDITION 


Lord c&; Burnham Co. 


Greenhouse Designers and Manufacturers 


Sales Offices 
NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO 


Eastern Factories 
IRVINGTON-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK 


Western Factories 
DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS 


Copyright, 1910, by Lord & Burnham Company, New York 


Number 47. 


DEC 20 1917 


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Index 
Page 

Ome SHacCts OL VAM POrCanCe mm etter ee i eee eee ee 5-6 
On; Planning “and Locating. Your -Greerihouse= =... 204-2 ee 7-11 
EStimatesy,: saeco nets sack ae Mater ead ee Gotoh aehit Gitte Meron tne nae tits 12-13 
Explanation of DifferentsLy pes of 1Olsess em oe ee ee 14 
Straight: Rooti*l ype—-leantOvbia- oe tee ener ae ne ere ae 15 
Straight Roof Type—Even and Three-quarter Span................. 16-27 
Curved Eave Type—Even and Three-quarter Span................. 28-36 
Curvilinéarsd ype—Even<Spatl-= on jane See ees se ee 37-41 
Straisht) Root;and Curvilinear Combination... a ee 42-48 
Some ‘ofrour.Flouses-at-Distants bOints se per ere er eee oe nek 49 
Tar cethang €Sin nee ee di einen ry Went ee cet SRA eh ce Reece are 50-53 
Palin? OuUsess re fee des atk ee nan ee nee aa ae een 54-56 
Aquaticn Poole i.e kak ce oir ieme Sn vo) rat Bae hak een ES ee ie eS 57 
Moss; Banks £7.28) o.5-..snint acai tae nn etek Gan pee Oem eaten 57 
Growinge. FriuiteUnder: Glass nigne ns eee eee Sern eee cee: 58-64 
Conservatories (tye rina): Roe os es GEE bts Pte eater eet ane 65-73 
Swimming Pools £58 ager. 22 Wiel ses aon ine Oe coc! WE ce ae a eee 74-77 
AViaties ve8 gh 2a Snae ene ace eet A tee ie oe oes 0 0 at ante eee eee AM abate 78 
Glassed=In Porches 2 econe hia ee he nese ere Sra See ere 79-82 
Plants“Lables-and eBedsin sea. seem oie sate een nrnrstes erae eaane 83 

W ork: “Rooms iets oie cre nae gee MORN Re he eM omit Re ae 84-85 
PV Catan oii dice As tae Seah is ch isy Miao s Caesars tals CeRE NR ee ehe Sle tu sgets AN ead Beech 86-87 
Entrances: andeV.estibules tat auatiterycrcey tate ae eed ey ee ak 88 
Whiting sMrames for, PrultcbOuses suc ae aad ee heen nes ate ee rae ye 89 
sideuw all Construction eer stiri = centre ete a ee ee go 
What.Our Sectional Jron-’Prame;tiouse: Is. 3.4.4... nae re Q1-94 
DE CULONS eo shk ote NOS AN ae eee et eA See: hg ARN ee OLN te Oe a 95-98 


Side view of the group of houses shown on top of opposite page. The 
glass connecting house between the work room and palm house gives 
valuable space for propagating cuttings or for growing ferns, orchids 
and crotons. 


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Number 48. Curvilinear palm house with curved eave wing houses erected for Mr. 
Dudley Olcott, Morristown, N. J. Ferruccio Vitale, Landscape Architect. 


Some Facts of Importance 


LL the greenhouses in this catalog are our Sectional Iron Frame Construction. This 
construction, because of its rigidity, durability and extreme lightness, makes the ideal 
greenhouse. 


As it stands to-day, it is the result of our more than fifty years experience as 
specialized greenhouse designers and manufacturers. — 


In our Designing and Sales Offices, at New York, Boston, Philadelphia and 
Designing and Chicago, are men who thoroughly understand practical greenhouse planning 
Sales Offices and designing—men with whom you will find it a pleasure and satisfaction 
to do business. 


Then there is our equipment for promptly filling your order. At Irvington-on- 
Facilities Hudson, N. Y., twenty-two miles from New York City, is our extensive factory, 

devoted exclusively to greenhouse manufacturing. As a matter of fact it is the 
largest and best equipped factory of its kind in the world. At Des Plaines, Ill., is another. 


In the factories are manufactured everything for the greenhouse 
Manufactured Products excepting the glass—all the iron work and all the wood work. 

Millions of feet of cypress are constantly on hand and thoroughly 
seasoned before a stick goes into the factories. 


The Burnham Boilers which heat our greenhouses, are special greenhouse boilers, made for 
greenhouse work, and are cast in our own foundry. We even go so far as to make our own putty, 
so it will be pure and the glazing will last. 


The fact that we have all these materials on hand, ready for immediate 
Quick Deliveries = working up into houses, enables us to turn out a greenhouse in a remark- 

ably short time compared with other building operations of any kind what- 
ever. In contrast to this, consider the delays and dissatisfaction that must result from deliveries 
made from concerns who have no such facilities, and therefore, must order their iron from one mill, 
their wood from another, and wait their turn for deliveries. Not only is the delay serious in col- 
lecting these materials, but when so ordered at different mills, the separate parts fail to fit when 
they arrive on the job. 


D.O eR D & Bo U TR ENGH eA eM CeO MP ARNaRY 


When the manufactured materials reach your grounds, immediate erec- 
Quick ‘Erection tion can start. The cutting and fitting have already been done, and the 
men work under a definite system, making possible great erection rapidity. 


Everything goes together like clock work. Your grounds are not cluttered up for an indefinite 
period—the contract is cheerfully filled to the very letter. 


As a result your greenhouse will be thoroughly up-to-date, an attractive and 
The Result practical structure, free from repairs—the combined result of over half a century 


of greenhouse building experience, and it is experience that counts. 


The Lord & Burnham Co.’s Plant at Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y. 


to you to know that there is in this country a factory of such proportions devoted 
entirely to manufacturing greenhouses. 


It may be of interest 


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Number 4g. A most effective result was secured on the grounds of Mr. R. A. Long 
at Kansas City, Mo., by connecting the greenhouse and tea room with a 
pergola. Howe and Hoit, Architects. 


On Planning and Locating Your Greenhouse 


HETHER you want a house just large enough to take care of the foliage plants used 
| around the grounds during the summer, the raising of a few cut flowers for the house 
and the starting of some vegetables for transplanting to the garden in the spring, or 
have in mind a group of houses to produce all sorts of cut flowers, a tropical house— 
mayhap a vegetable house and then a place for peaches, nectarines, cherries, pine- 
apples and grapes, the following suggestions will help you in getting started: 


One way is for you to tell us just what you have in mind, 
One Way to Get Started and send a rough drawing of your grounds, showing grades, 

points of the compass, and possible locations for the green- 
house as well as the uses to which the different parts of the grounds are devoted. The fullest in- 
formation you can give about the nearby buildings and the materials used for the exteriors, will 
be of advantage. A photograph would be even better. Such information you can readily appre- 
ciate will give us a quick understanding upon which to base our suggestions to you. 


Number 50. If your ground space is limited, per- 
haps you could attach your greenhouse to 
the stable or some other existing building 
similar to this compact little layout. 


Another way to go about it is to let us come and talk it over, and we will 
Another Way help you to get the best location, the best and most practical arrangement as 

well as to definitely insure your having proper light, temperature and venti- 
lation for the particular things you wish to grow. 


LA OrReD & BoUGRaEN HS AyM C&O TMP AEN, TY. 


Still another way is for you to make your selection direct from the sub- 
One More Way jects shown in the catalog, and we will duplicate it, with such modifica- 
tions as may be fortunate for your particular location and needs. In 


such cases it is well to give us full information concerning the proximity of existing buildings and 
trees, particularly evergreens. 


This way of doing it has some advantages, as you know from the illustrations pretty definitely 
how your completed house will look, and what it will do for you, by what it has done for others. 


Number 51. These houses at Bethayers, Pa., form a part 
of the northern boundary of a beautiful walled-in gar- 
den, and are stepped up with its terraces. 


Speaking of location, it is a mistake to think that the greenhouse 
Where to Locate It — should be placed in some isolated corner where it will be out of sight. 

If properly planned and designed, it can well occupy a prominent 
location and become one of the most interesting features of the grounds. 

If possible, your location should be one that will make the care of the houses a convenience—an 
arrangement that will secure the amount of light required for each compartment, and economy both 
of fuel and labor in operation. 

Also of great importance is the right placing of the cellar for the boiler, to secure perfect heat- 


ing conditions. Last, and by no means least, you want the best possible setting architecturally. 
All of this, of course, applies to the small houses as well as to the larger groups. 


co OOS 


Number 52. Some of the charm of this house at Bar 
Harbor, Me., is due to its right placing and the tastily 
arranged planting. Andrews, Jacques and Rantoul, 
Architects. 
Very often a man comes to us with more extensive ideas for a 
Planning for Additions greenhouse than he feels his pocketbook will immediately permit 
him to build. So we lay out and plan the scheme as he wants it 
to be when fully completed—then we erect such houses as it is important to have at once, and 
from time to time add others until the plan is carried out. 
In doing this the importance of preserving an attractive architectural balance is always foremost 
in mind. 


TekeOgN BR Agi ae GUaRSE REN tts On Ue Se Bas 


To illustrate how this may be done, we have numbered the illustrations 
Building by Units on this page as units. These units comprise Potting Room, No. 1; 

Greenhouse, No. 2; Palm House, No. 3. Any style or size palm house 
and wings shown in the book, can be substituted for these particular units. 


The first year, for instance, you could start with Nos. 1 and 2, followed the next year by No. 3, 
and the third, add the wing house on the opposite side of the palm house, a duplicate of No. 2. Each 
year the group is of apparent completeness—each year adds to its attractiveness until you have a 
well balanced, ornamental scheme. 


Number 53 A. Work room and general Number 53 B. The adding of the palm house gives 
greenhouse. You could start with the opportunity for a continuous chapter from the trop- 
work room and palm house, in which ics, besides the growing of many foliage plants that 
case the work room would be at the demand high temperatures. 


rear as on pages 34 and 35. 


Ground Plan Number 53 A Ground Plan Number 53 B Ground Plan Number 53 C 
Units | and 2 Units I, 2 and 3 In which Unit 2 is used twice 


Number 53 C. View of the completed range, looking down from the terraced garden. 
The work room in this particular subject is rather elaborate. It could be 
greatly simplified, if desirable to reduce the cost. On page 85 are examples 
of work rooms of several other types. 


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Manhasset, L. I., is 


Ground Plan 54. 


The classic palm house of the Manhasset plan shown above. 
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Guy Lowell, Architect. 


Number 54. 


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Number 55. This is a splendid bit of planning, not only in relation to the harmonious 
architectural treatment of all the buildings, but the careful consideration 
given to the effective placing of the greenhouse. A nearby view of the 
greenhouse, accompanied with a full description is given on page 37. 


Number 56. The graceful lines of our curvilinear houses are 
thoroughly demonstrated by this group. The photo 
was taken in the fall of the year, from the residence 
veranda. 


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Number 57. East wing of greenhouses and bowling alley on the estate of 


Mr. Emil Berolzheimer, Tarrytown, N. Y. Janes & Leo, 
Architects. 
Estimates 


OU must feel free to ask for an estimate or information concerning any plan that at- 
tracts you in this book. 


You will always find us prompt to answer. If you prefer, we will be glad to meet 
you by appointment, and go into all details. 


Kindly write to any one of our four offices which may be nearest to you. These 
are located at New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. 


We have in our files copies of the working drawings of the various plans - 
Duplicate Plans shown in this catalog, and so can furnish you an estimate for them with 

least possible delay. An order for such a plan can at once be put through 
our factory, because it will not have to wait its turn in the drafting department. 


It is a simple matter to lengthen or shorten any house in the cata- 
On Lengthening and log, excepting such palm houses as may have special framing. 
Shortening Houses In changing the length of the house or a compartment, we sug- 

gest that it be done in full section lengths. By this we mean that 
the house is made up of units 8 feet 4 inches long, and the dividing of one of these units does 
not proportionately lessen the expense, as the framing is the same. 


S SILI If you have some particular preference as to the architectural treatment of 
Pn ate your house, and none of the plans shown in this book will work out to the best 


advantage, we will be glad to prepare a special plan accompanied by an estimate. 


When a conservatory is designed to be attached to the residence, the location 
Conservatories and dimensions of doors, windows, etc., vary to such an extent that it is neces- 
sary to have the fullest information. 


Send us an elevation of side of dwelling against which the conservatory is to be built, showing 
material used in exterior of dwelling and indicating in feet and inches, locations and size of windows, 
height of first floor above outside grade and cellar floor, height of window sills of first and second 
story above the first floor. 


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Send also a rough plan of the residence and conservatory site, with approximate location and 
size of conservatory, and points of compass indicated. State whether the grade is level, or slopes 
from or toward the residence. 

Show location and size of chimney flue that may be used for conservatory boiler. 

Indicate floor level desired in the conservatory. 

State what you want to grow, and if convenient, send a photograph of that side of the 
residence, to which the conservatory is to be attached. 


Number 58. Octagon end, curved roof conservatory adjoining Mrs. J. A. Fuller’s 
Japanese tea room at her country place, Dalton, Pa. Interior views and 
description will be found on pages 72 and 73. 


Number 59. On the estate of Mrs. Van Winkle at Bristol, R. I., is located 
this well designed layout, with curvilinear palm house and straight roof 
wings. 


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An Explanation 


What is Meant by the Terms Straight Roof, Curved Eave and 
Curvilinear Greenhouses 


|] T occurs to us that if at the very start the three different types of houses are explained 
briefly, it might be of assistance to you in following the description and references 
throughout the catalog. 
Any of these types can be built in any form, as leanto, even span, three quarter 
span, and all are adaptable to any of the plans shown in the catalog. 
Our sectional Iron Frame Construction, because of its adaptability, is particularly 
suited to all three types. 


Straight Roof House 


The roof is straight from the ridge to the 
eave. At the eave is an ornamental moulded 
gutter which gives a pleasing architectural ac- 
cent at that point. Between this gutter and 
the cast iron sill, which rests on top of the 
masonry wall, are the side sash, which, when 
hinged, allow a continuous line of ventilation 
above the benches. 

It is a house adaptable for all sorts of grow- 
ing purposes. 

By building it with high sides, it makes an 
admirable palm house. 


Curved Eave House 


The. gutter is placed at the sill on top of 
the foundation walls. Side ventilation is secured 
by wall panels underneath the benches. 

The pronounced.curve of the eave gives to 
this house strikingly graceful lines. It is the 
lightest house known, because there is no gutter 
to catch the snow and ice and shut out the 
light. 


Curvilinear House 


This house has the side sash, and gutters 
placed at the eave the same as the Straight Roof 
House. The long curve of the roof from the 
gutter upward, gives to this house beautiful 
lines. It is conceded to be the most ornamental 
of all the types, and is the one generally used for 
palm houses, in which case the sides are made 
higher, the gable hipped back or a dome added. 

It is no better growing house than the other 
types, but additional head room is gained on 
the side benches for the taller plants, and when 
used for graperies, the curve of the roof admits 
of greater length of vines. 


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Straight Roof Type—Leanto House 
Plan 60 


OR a general purpose house, for growing an assortment of favorite plants along with 
some of the more exacting things, such as Gloire de Lorraine Begonias, orchids and 
the like, it makes an admirable house. 

For lettuce, beans, Swiss chard, cucumbers, melons and tomatoes or as a cool 
vinery for growing grapes without artificial heat, it is decidedly successful. 


For the raising of all kinds of flowering, bedding and vegetable plants for early spring setting 
out, it is most satisfactory. 

Built against the residence, it makes a very satisfactory and inexpensive conservatory. 

As to the cost, it usually works out a considerable saving in expense over the even span 
house in cases where there is an existing building or wall to place it against. 


STORAGE SHED 


Number 60. Mr. Anton G. Hodenpyl having a storage cellar, with concrete walls, on 
his place at Locust Valley, L. I., had this leanto greenhouse built against it. 


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Number 60 A. Over 5,000 wild flowers and vines Number 60 B. Here is a suggestion for the treat- 
were propagated here last winter, for planting ment of an interior leanto wall by having 
about Mr. Hodenpyl’s grounds. It is now filled Bougainvillea cover it. Marechal Niel or Chero- 
with a general assortment of house plants. kee roses are equally good. 


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Even Span House—One Compartment 
Straight Roof 


makes an ideal two bench house, 
with a center walk. This house 
with its two wide benches gives a 
large proportion of plant space. 


It is really surprising the number 
of flowers and vegetables it is possible to grow 
in it. To have a continuous supply, it is only 
necessary to do what the gardeners call “re- 
cropping,” which means one crop following on 
the heels of the other, so that 


no space in your “indoors 


GREENHOUSE 


dwelling and using them both as conservatories 
or sun parlors as well as for regular greenhouses. 


As a place in which to experiment, and try 
out some little stunts of your own, you would 
be delighted with it. 


Twenty-five or thirty-three feet make a good 
length for a single compartment house, and 50 
and 75 feet for two and three compartments. 
But of course, the length of your house all de- 
pends on what you want to grow. If you have 

an existing building to which 


WORK ROOM , 
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it can be attached, the expense 


garden spot” is ever idle. 


They are used extensively 
for growing melons and straw- 
berries; and are also admirable 
for attaching direct to the 


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Ground Plan Number 61. 


Under the entire length of the 
house is a cellar, which is used 
for storing numerous semi-hardy 
plants and hundreds of bulbs. 


of a work room is avoided. 
On pages 84 and 85 you will 
find work rooms. described 
and several different designs 
shown. 


Number 61. 


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When we erected this house for Mr. A. E. Hammer at Branford, Conn., he 
wanted it particularly for growing plants for beautifying his grounds, but 
now he has a general assortment of flowers from it all winter. 


Pahke ON whisk Ge Acuvia Ge Re heehee NE Owns obs 


Number 61 A. In our 11-foot wide house there is one walk, with a wide bench on either 


side, giving ample room for a various assortment of plants in pots and flats 
or planted out in the bench. 


Number 62 A. Wellesley College students use one Number 62 B. One of the many joys of a green- 
of our 11-foot houses for a plant laboratory, house is having strawberries all winter long. 
where they carry on most interesting experi- These are just being started. When in fruit, 
ments in connection with the botany course. the berries hang down in clusters around the 
Greenhouses have become part of the essential pots—not alone luscious looking, but decidedly 
equipment of the leading colleges. attractive for table decorations. 


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Erected for Mrs. W. L. Bull: Irvinetoncon Hudson: N. va 


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Plan 63 


One Compartment—Straight Roof House 


ERE is an attractive straight roof house 

about 33 feet long and 18 feet wide. It 

is large enough to devote solely to one 

purpose, as the growing of roses or carna- 

tions, or as a general house for plants and vege- 
tables thriving in like temperatures. 

This is our Sectional Iron Frame Construc- 

tion, which is noted for its durability. It is built 


on iron post foundations at considerably less 


cost than if masonry foundations 


The boiler is conveniently located in the cellar 
of work room. 

In the middle of November last year, the 
center bench was filled with the smaller palms 
and large sword ferns, besides numerous other 
foliage plants. The side benches held lettuce, 
marguerites, chrysanthemums and a goodly plant- 
ing of sweet peas just coming up. 

Last year Mrs. Bull extended the house 33 feet, 
making another compartment which 


were used. 
The shingle sides of the green- 


she intends using entirely for carna- 
tions. And that is the way it goes with 


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house and work room harmonize with 
the treatment of the nearby buildings. 


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our customers who start with small 
houses; they eventually add to them. 


Number 63 A. The original house is now used for roses. The 
photo, you see, was taken when the plants were still young. 


TatmOw Nea Whe Re Ag Niner Ga RBar aNe Ogu S Eis 


Number 64. Greenhouse at Edgeworth, Pa., built for Mr. W. H. Singer. 


Plan 64 


Two Compartment—Straight Roof House 


ITH two compartments you can regulate | the sides from the foundation wall to the glass line, 
the temperatures at different degrees, | shingled to correspond with the stables nearby. 
and add greatly to the The double doors in the gable 
range of growing pos- give ample room to carry in the 

sibilities. large potted plants which are 
The sides in this particular kept in this end compartment 

house are in variation from our during the winter. 

standard construction, shown in Section A on In the cellar underneath the work room, are 

page 14, as it was the desire of Mr. Singer to have | two tiers of mushroom beds. 


Ground Plan No. 64 


Number 64 A. This is the end compartment. It is used for potted plants. The center 
table is left out to accommodate the taller plants in pots and tubs, which 
decorate the stoops and grounds during the summer. 


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A few years ago we built this distinctive looking house for Judge Moore 


at Pride’s Crossing, Mass. Subsequently, we have added an octagonal 
palm house and straight roof wing, placed at a right angle to this house. 
Elan0o 
Two Compartments With Side Entrance 
Oy HE side entrance of this house, besides The additional cost for a side entrance is more 
being a matter of convenience in reach- | than it would appear at first sight, because of 
ing the greenhouse cutting into the roof and side 


compartments without framing of the house, and 
passing through the work room, OEPET TY Im T= cutting of the benches and 
is unmistakably a_ pleasing ! ers) zoxes | = heating pipes; also the ad- 
feature as it centers on the ditional trench and heating 
main walk of the formal mains necessary to be brought 
garden, and makes a happy from the cellar, to avoid cross- 
termination for it. ing the walk with pipes. 


The potted violets 
in the side benches are used for table decorations when in full bloom. 


oe s ee 


Number 65 A. In the center benches are violets planted out in the soil. 


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Number 66 A. 


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Plan 66 


Quite the most interesting compartment in this greenhouse is the center 
one, filled with ferns, foliage plants and the smaller palms. 


GEeRCEEaN chy One Urs bss 


Three Compartment—Straight Roof House 


ERE the side entrance is rather 
more elaborate in its details 
than the one on the opposite 
page. The background not be- 

ing as fortunate, it seemed necessary 
to give rather more importance to the 
greenhouse itself—just one of the 
cases of careful consideration of en- 
vironment in relation to greenhouse 


as BY 


Number 66. 


|HOUSE ROSES, 
25 18x16-6 


| 


Looking across the flower gardens, here is th 


Ground Plan No. 66 


Reece an 
e view you get of this little 


plan and design. 

You will see from the plan that 
the work room is at the center, in 
the rear. Placing it here, if possible, 
is quite the best arrangement, espe- 
cially when there is a side entrance, 
as it brings the boiler directly oppo- 
site, considerably reducing the cost 
of heating mains and trench. 


gem with its cosy setting in the grounds of the famous yacht builder, 


Mr. J. B. Herreshof, at Bristol, R. I. 


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& B,UVReENGH APM CeO NOPR. AUN: FY 


Number 67. Greenhouse and pit combination erected for Mr. J. F. Flannagan, Newton, Mass. 


Plan 67 


Five Compartment—Straight Roof House 


Gy]~HIS variation from the previous plans is | partments are desired for violets or cool vegetables. 
known among the gardeners as a “house It really costs more to build these pits than it 
with a pit.” The pit is really a leanto | would to lengthen or widen the house to obtain 

house, partly under ground, and the same area, because of the 

is placed on the southern side of = Fics. extra depth it is necessary to 
the house in cases where a wide carry the masonry wall to ob- 
greenhouse might not be desir- tain head room, and overcome 
able, and additional cool com- the heating problem involved. 


PLAN iS, 
16x33-4" 


TROPICAL 


Number 67 A. One of the compartments is filled with carnations, Number 67 B. he pit is divided 
abutilons and narcissus. The hanging pots are pink, yellow and in two compartments, this one 
white blooming oxalis. being used for vegetables and 


the other for violets. 


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LR OeN GER ARM -E G_R EEE Ne HO; US shes 


Number 68. A good substantial, practical looking house; simple in design but attract- 
ive. It was erected for Mr. E. Y. Weber at Stamford, Conn. 


lanes 


Three Compartment, Straight Roof, Wide House 


FTEN the farm property is so situated that it is 
desirable to have a greenhouse located there. In 
such cases, a wide house like this is admirable 
because of the increased bench room secured and 

the fact that it costs less in proportion than a narrow 
one, the cost of the sides being the same in either case. 


This one is 30 feet wide and 141 feet long, and is 
divided into three compartments, one each for roses and 
carnations, and a goodly sized one for a large variety of 
general plants. A house of this width gives room for 
five benches. 


‘Near the stone work room you see there is a little 
gablet in the side of the greenhouse; this is for a con- 
necting passage to a parallel house which the owner in- 
tends building later. 


The iron side posts of this house are set in concrete 
piers. The foundation treatment up to the height of the 
side glass may be of double boarding, as used here, or 
stone, concrete or brick. See page g1 for Side Wall Con- 
structions. 


1 


GENERAL PLANTS CARNATIONS | 


30x46 


See see eee] 


Ground Plan Number 68. 


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Number 68 A. A glimpse in the 50- 
foot compartment. It is filled with 
hundreds of bulb plants, hydrangeas, 
azaleas, cinerarias, cyclamens, and 
hanging pots of ferns. Vigorous, 
full blooming nasturtium vines form 
archways from column to column. 


& BRU Kean we eee 


CHOU My Petav. Ney. 


Number 69. 


O77 HE L house is desirable when the ground 
limits do not permit a continuous long 
It also forms a splendid basis 
for a well balanced layout when dupli- 
cate houses are added, extending from the other 


house. 


side of the work room. 
Such a treatment 
forms a semi-enclosed 
court. 

In this case the work 
room was made large 
enough to accommodate 
an office and the needs 


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Number 69 A. 


COLD FRAME 7x46" 


Looking down a side walk of a plant compartment. 
tainly are joy spots. 


nde Cees Pate 


The finished portion of a layout for Mrs. A. E. Austin, at Pawtuxet, R. I. 


Plan 69 
The L House—Straight Roof 


PLANT HOUSE [2 


18X33-4 FUTURE HOUSE 


WORK ROOM 
| 25x30 


CARNATION HOUSE 


(6x41-6 


[Licensees 


J 


a 


The dotted-in portions at the right show how the 
house will be when the proposed extensions are added. 


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st 


of the proposed extension. 

Those cold frames at the south of the carna- 
tion house (see plan) are used for starting 
early vegetable plants, bedding stock, etc., in 
the spring, and the growing of lettuce and 


Swiss chard greens 
during the winter. 

A heating pipe can be 
carried right into the 
frames, giving a perfect 
temperature control and 
so greatly enlarging 
their usefulness. 


Greenhouses cer- 


[akwOsN F RAM E GSR ES ESN «He OU asses 


Number 70. From an elevation on the opposite side of the garden this is the view you 
get of Miss L. Y. Cockcroft’s charming greenhouses at Saugatuck, Conn. 
Charles Barton Keen, Landscape Architect. 


Plan 70 


A Parallel Layout—Straight Roof 


HERE two connected houses are desired 
for locating in some certain square of 
ground, a parallel layout like this one 
works out to splendid advantage. 


It happens that this particular one is located 
in the very midst of a walled-in garden, and was 
laid out to occupy the space between the garden 
drive and main walk. The result is certainly 
charming. 


The small house connecting the larger ones 
gives additional valuable space, and makes it pos- 
sible to place the houses wide enough apart, so 
one will not shade the other, which is a highly 
important consideration in successful greenhouse 
results. 


The set-in vestibules in the gables are unusual 
and ornamental features well worth the additional 


diture. 
expenditure Te Gee 


Prassace | [4 room is simple 

Kia" “7 andin harmony. 
It is a partic- 
ularly pleasing 
subject that 
might well be 
duplicated in 
every detail. 


VEGETABLES 
18x39 
ORCHIDS 
18x4rge 


COLD FRAME 
7X37 


Ground Plan Number 70. 


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Number 70 A. View looking toward one of the 
side benches filled with primulas and young 
tomato vines which are already beginning to 
bear. 


Te OMRED ea) BU R= NH A eM Ca On Mee Ae NERV 


Plan 71 


Another Parallel Layout—Straight Roor 


T is exceedingly interesting that several |= being simply a reversal of the operation. 
years after we erected these houses at Kp eses” No particular outlay was made to make 
Plymouth, Mass., Mr. Jordan had us take oF rice these houses very ornamental as they are 
them down and ship to Wenham, Mass., somewhat removed from the residence, 

where they were re-erected and intended solely for prac- 
on his farm. eee — mittee, | tical purposes. There are 

Constructed as our green- {fj .—————— | 

houses are, in sections, each | |.{———-_~ 
having a complete _ iron 
frame. it was no difficult 


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PALM HOUSE 


bed ace [votes] nine compartments in all, 

—_ exsre___j/] devoted to flowers and vege- 
tables which are supplied in 
abundance to the summer 


PASSAGE 
12x12-6 


task to unbolt the various Si ae =z | residence part of the year 
members and take the So ence ae oe cael eeenscariamenes and they rest. of athemtunie 
houses down section by | lbe==2>== ee rem da [__=***_]!] shipped in boxes, every 
section—their re-erection morning to the city. 


Number 71 A. A longitudinal glass partition is run Number 71 B. And _ this is the leanto 
through one of the compartments dividing it into three portion filled with violets—those long 
quarter span and leanto compartment. This is the stemmed, exquisitely scented single ones. 


three quarter span tomato house. 


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PRS OUN FF Rea OE Gane eNO US eas 


jedtenay #2 
The Three-quarter Span House—Straight Roof 


HOULD the available location on your grounds have a sharp slope to the south, a three- 
‘| quarter span roof would be particularly adaptable, as it would overcome the necessity 
of expensive excavating and filling, or the need of a high masonry wall and filling to 
make the floor level. In such houses the benches are usually stepped up one above 
the other which arrangement prevents the plants in the front benches from shading those 
in the rear. 

In cases where a special fern, violet or propagating house is desired we often divide an even 
span house by a longitudinal partition forming a leanto compartment on the north and a three- 
quarter span one on the south. Such a case is illustrated on bottom of page 26. 


"GENERAL PLANTS CARNATIONS _ | 
; Zz 20x33°4" 


20x50" 


Number 72 A. Three quarter span interior with Number 72 B. Interior of a three quarter span 
the benches stepped up and filled with carna- orchid house with the two front tables on the 
tions. The vines are nasturtiums. same level and the rear one arranged with a 


stepped up rack of three shelves. 


Number 72. Erected for Mr. E. L. Marston, Bryan Shore, East Porchester, N. Y. At 
the north is a high retaining wall, defining the property limits; from it the 
ground descends rapidly to the south, making a three quarter span house 
the most practical one to build. 


PAT 


Le OGD & B; Usk Neo ASM CROPMAP SAmING.Y, 


Curved Eave Type, One Compartment, Three Quarter Span 
Plan 73 


HERE is an undeniable grace and beauty in the lines of our Curved Eave House, 
the truth of which could not be better shown than in this charming little, single com- 
partment, three-quarter span rose house. 


There being no gutter at the eave to retard the sliding off of snow and ice, the 
roof is kept clear, which is undoubtedly a decided advantage in sections where the 
snow falls are heavy. This house is 33 feet long and 18 feet wide. The boiler for 
heating sets in the cellar of the old greenhouse at a distance, and the pipes are connected to it 


through an underground trench. 

Besides its attractiveness, it is an exceed- 
ingly light house. This feature is of no little 
importance in the short winter days when 
light is at such a premium. 

After the owner had had several unsatis- 
factory and, in the end, very expensive ex- 
periences with greenhouses built by local 
carpenters, we were called in to build this 
every way, up-to-date durable house. 

We are now arranging to add to the house 
another compartment and eventually it is the 
owner’s intention to replace all her houses with 
the Curved Eave type. 


Number 73 A. This empty interior view of a por- 
tion of the side and gable is most convincing 
evidence of the extreme lightness of our curved 
eave houses. 


GREENHOUSE 


Ground Plan Number 73 


Fy at die ¢ . 4 ae . Ms 
foi -@ % dee: ee, ; us f Ko 


Number 73. So pleased was Mrs. W. C. Lanman with the attractiveness of our curved 
eave construction, that she had us locate this house just across the lawn 
from her residence at Norwich, Conn. It sets right in the midst of the 
borders of her old-fashioned garden. 


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PAREOe N 


Be Re Ar Nek 


Number 74. 


GeRe Hark gNeotie Oe OU s5n bas 


Erected for Mr. O. B. Mueller, New Rochelle, N. Y. 


Planse/4eands 75 


Greenhouse and Garage— Curved Eave 


Oy, ~HE linking of greenhouse and garage is 
an arrangement that is especially desir- 
able where space is limited. Another 
advantage is that the greenhouse boiler 

can heat both. 

Number 74 is one of the simple treatments, 
very effectively worked out. 

The work room is entered through the garage. 
The greenhouse divided into two compartments, 
is devoted to growing a general assortment of 
plants. 

This is one of the cases 
where the greenhouse is 
the owner’s hobby, and he 
does pretty much all the 
indoor gardening himself. 

For a hobby it would 


OO el 
GARAGE 


1s Se 
Ground Plan Number 74. 


be hard to find one more healthful and delight- 
fully satisfying. 

Number 75 is a somewhat elaborate garage 
with living apartments in the second story 
for the chauffeur or gardener. It is rather inter- 
esting the way the even span portion of the 
greenhouse fits into the jog of the garage, and 
the leanto runs along the side. 

The part of plan marked “future” Mr. Chese- 
brough contemplates adding soon. 


Number 75 


Combined even span and leanto house joined to Mr. W. H. Chesebrough’s 
garage at Spring Lake, N. J. 


im ORD & BYUARYNSH ASM COR Ma Pa Aa Nay) 


Erected for Mr. E. Eiseman, Far Rockaway, L. I. Edward Shire, Architect. 
On the opposite side is a vestibule entrance which adds to its attractiveness. 


Plan 76 


One Compartment—Curved Eave 


Number 76. 


Or HE owner of this house not only loves | the work room is half timber and stucco in keep- 


flowers but he thoroughly enjoys taking | ing with the residence. 
a hand iin their cares slo To further gratify his enthusi- 


make it more get-at-able 1! : eS asm, Mr. Eiseman has ordered the 
and, therefore, more pleasurable, ; Se length of the greenhouse extended 
the greenhouse was located quite : to form another compartment, hav- 
near the residence. The exterior of Ground Plon UNuraber 76 ing hot beds across the outside end. 


Number 76 A. Another interior side view as a further evidence of the lightness and nicety 
of finish of our curved eave houses. 


ey 


30 


PeRAOF Nw Es Riva GR ESE NG OFUSS ES 


Number 76 B. What will particularly attract your attention in this carnation house interior 
is that although an unusually wide house, it is entirely free from any roof 
supporting columns. 


Number 76 C. You would have taken keen delight in going down these garden walks be- 
tween rows of giant snap dragons, azaleas, daffodils, stock and such, all 
in a riot of bloom and filling the air with their fragrance. 


31 


TPLR2ON ReRePAy NEE 


Gulk=E se EaeNee Ee Oe Uito ees 


Number 77. 


This somewhat unique arrangement of half-timbered work room and 


curved eave greenhouse is one of the interesting features of Prof. Jacobus’s 


garden scheme at Hartford, Conn. 


Plan 77 


Three Compartment House—Even Span, Curved Eave 


Or HE owner has this house divided into 
three compartments, or separate gardens, 
as it were—one each for roses, carnations 
and chrysanthemums. In November the 

chrysanthemums are about over, and_ the 

space can then be used for general ornamental and 
flowering plants and vege- 


tables, cauliflower and 
lettuce for instance. 
Jogging the potting 


have been done if desired and a fourth com- 
partment secured, which would have been just 
the thing for melons or tomatoes and the 
like. 

In thinking of this house as being located in 
a city, we are reminded of the persistent notion 
ft). .theres-used to. bem that 
greenhouses were intend- 
ed only for country places, 
and that the man with 


a 
l| FUTURE GRAPERY 


WORK ROOM 


7x18" 


room into a portion of 


somewhat limited grounds 


the greenhouse makes an 


f ROSES | VEGETABLES | CARNATIONS 


in the city could not spare 


ideal little leanto about 


2 


the space. Asa matter of 


2x25° 


{ 22x33-4 [ 


16) feet: Jong. You see 


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fact, with a greenhouse 


from the plan, however, 
that it is not separated 
from the even span por- 
This could easily 


tion. 


x here oe oo * 

Number 77 A. The center compartment a short 
time after the chrysanthemums were over. The 
two right-handed benches are filled with cauli- 
flower, radishes and lettuce. The left-hand ones 
with narcissus, stock, azaleas and cinerarias. 


et) 


Ground Plan Number 77. 
added to the chrysanthemum house, the 
plan will be L shaped. 


you can grow four crops 
instead of one and so 
make your city space just 
four times as valuable. 


When a grapery is 


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Number 77 B. The even span and leanto interior 
adjoining the work room. The rose plants are 


young and just beginning to bloom. The 
benches are the indestructible cast iron ones. 


CoLORED INSERT 


SPECIAL CURVED 
EAVE SUBJECT 


LROe RSD & BU ReNSH eA eM COMPAN Y 


Number 87. If you want a house for palms, ferns 


Number 87 C. The right hand wing two cut flower or vegetable houses, i 
house is a full fledged vegetable gar- on the estate of the late Mr. M. Kah 
den filled in part by cauliflower. A 
greenhouse makes it possible to have 
snowy heads of a delicious creaminess 
that are far and away superior to } 
outdoors grown. 


Palm House and Wit 


Oy HE layout arrangement 
this snug little range is 
of the best. The desig 
pleasing one. The p 

house placed as a central feat 

with the two smaller wing hou 
gives good architectural. pro- 
portions. 

The curved eaves in their 
graceful lightness is a feature 
adding much to the attrac- 
tiveness. 

The shingled 
work room is COOL HOUSE 
particularly ns 
good, because 


it was made 
: Ground Plan N 
fittingly sub- of the plan 
Number 87 B. Standing here you get a comprehensive view of prac- ordinate to the little greenh 
tically the entire layout. A larger view of the work houses. and is quote on it 
room is shown on page 85. 2 the palm ho 


TeReOgNS Hh ekea gM GSReE ESN HOU SeE S$ 


a 


assortment of plants, in connection with SRE Sears 
e hard to beat this charming little range Number 87 D. This year the right hand 
gehampton, L. I. wing house was filled with old fash- 


ioned flowers and a most interesting 
collection of flowering plants in pots. 


87 


irved Eave—Even Span 


ee from expensive elaboration. 
he connecting house between it 
id the palm house, is to feet 
ide and about 8 feet long, making 
fine little two bench compartment 
r orchids, ferns or propagating 
purposes. 

This is a scheme which 
could well be placed in a 
formal flower or vegetable 
garden or on any lawn. The 
size of the com- 
partments can 
paces be lengthened 

or widened if 
desired, keeping 
the same _ per- 
fect proportions 


7. Hither wing 
nake a_perfect 
itself. We can of the larger Number 87 E. We were glad to secure this photo before the 


where, likewise structural beauty of this center house was ob- 


scheme. 
scured by the larger palms. 


inck ON 


F RAM E 


GOK he NTH Ouse Ss 


Curvilinear Type, Two Compartments—Even Span 


From the 
practical side 
ey really. no petter 
growing houses than the 
other types, described in 
detail on page 14. However, 
there is a certain advantage 
in the fact that the curved 


HE Curvilinear House has a decided 
architectural beauty and strength. 
The long graceful curve of the roof 
is at once attractive and impressive. 


WW 


Plan 8&8 


| WARM HOUSE | 


g ) COOL HOUSE j 
18xXx33-4 


18x33-4" 


HOT BED 6-2x3I' COLD FRAME 6-2-3! 


Ground Plan Number 88. 


roof gives more head room for the taller plants, 
and for graperies and potted fruit houses they are 
much in favor, as the shape of the roof gives to 
the vines an opportunity for greater length and 


the trees a chance to grow 
without coming in contact 
with the glass. For the same 
reasons they make ideal 
show houses where the best 
plants from the other com- 
partments can be brought 
for display. 


Number 88 A. Standing in the work room door this is the 
way it looked the middle of last March. There is a spa- 
cious airiness about the curvilinear interiors that appeals 
to one. 


Number 88. 


was kept in harmony. 


Schlaet. 


of 


When rightly handled there is nothing more effective than the curvilinear 
house. The nearby stables being of Spanish Mission design, the work room 


It was erected at Saugatuck, Conn., for Mr. Arnold 
See Page 11, Number 55, for a more general view of grounds. 


iOS cD & BAU_ RIN HAM Ci OrM EPRARNeY, 


Number 8g. Making the greenhouse fit both your needs and your grounds—that’s 
what good designing and planning means. Here you have it at its best. 
Erected for Mr. R. V. Lindabury, Bernardsville, N. J. 


Plan 89 


Three Compartment with Side Entrance, Curvilinear 


NE of our finest examples of a three | colonial in treatment and full of character. 
compartment, The heavy concrete 
ClltvelL Ptrelank water table topping the 


house. It has a | ees) | Ses z z foundation is a departure 
splendid architectural har- ce fe 2 RES ||| that adds a note of 
mony throughout. : coe TT eee | || strength and seems to 


The side entrance is a 
beautiful bit of pure de- 
sign; the work room is 


tie the work room and 
] greenhouse together most 
Ground Plan Number 89. pleasingly. 


ang Te KVAL | 


Number 89 A. The carnation compartment has taken the 
overflow of plants in tubs from the center 
compartment. 


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Sd whee 
a 


Number go A. More and more the greenhouse is being treated as 
a veritable indoor garden, making it wonderfully 
attractive. This arch of roses when in full bloom 
in the midst of winter, is enough to stir the ad- 
miration of the most stolid. 


Plan 90 
Single Compartment Plant House—Curvilinear 


ALLING this a plant house may be a | flowers and potted plants from it all winter. 

bit confusing to you, so let us ex- With the heating centralized in the work 

plain that Mr. Wimpheimer wanted room cellar at the back, the addition of a 

it for protecting and growing the wing house at either end for growing 
numerous tall plants and medium cut flowers, vegetables or fruit would 
size palms which are distributed be simple and inexpensive. Two 
about the stoops and grounds in the small wings thus added would form 
summer. Of course, the smaller a perfectly balanced scheme with 
plants are grown as well, and he three compartments and three sepa- 
has a goodly supply of general Ground Plan Number 90. rate temperatures. 


PLANT HOUSE 
: 18x4I-8 


Number go. A distinctive charm all its own has this curvilinear house. 
Erected for Mr. C. A. Wimpheimer, at Long Branch, N. J. 


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Number ot. 


B.-UR aia A M 


CEOEM TP WA NY. 


This group of curvilinear plant houses, with rose and carnation wings, is 


near the entrance gate on the grounds of Mr. E. D. Godfrey, Seabright, N. J. 


Plan 91 


Plant House and Wings—Curved Roof—Four Compartments 


Oy HIS is an ideal layout. 
plan is one of the best possible. 
practical in every way. The work 
room is connected with the plant 

house in the center by a passage house 

which not only makes all the compartments 
readily accessible and the distribution of 
the heat economical, but 
the work room being 


Ideal, because the 


Ttviss} sins. 


[CHRYSaNTHEMUMS 


sage house is just what is needed for propagat- 


Aside from the beauty of these all 
curvilinear houses there is an advantage 
in the increased height of side secured, as 
the side benches have sufficient head room 
to grow the taller plants when you want 
to. Especially is this so 
with chrysanthemums 


[ ROSES 18xSO 
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set away from the 
other houses does not 
shade them. The pas- 


POG 


] 5x4l-8° : 
Si A 


Number g1 A. 


t 7 ; 
CARNATIONS 18XSO 


or American Beauty 
roses, and no doubt you 
will want both. 


An exceptionally fine house of carnations from which 


armfuls are shipped to the city residence several 


times during the week. 


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IT RROFN FRAM E GaReE Ey Netto Us Ses 


Number 92. A beautiful series of curves it is, forming an exceedingly effective part of 
the boundary to Dr. R. A. Newman’s gardens at Detroit, Mich. 


Plan 92 


Stepped-up Houses—Curvilinear 


HAT a picture this is! A striking ex- 
ample of a perfect adaptation of the 
greenhouse to the conformity of the 
grounds. Stepping them up (or down) 

on the ground this way, successfully accommo- 
dates the houses to its slope. Imagine the loss 
in effect had all three of the houses been built 
on the same level, necessitating a high founda- 
tion wall on the lower end, and giving part of 
the houses a perched up look. 


This is just another instance of the intimate 
association of the formal outdoor garden and 
the informal one indoors. The formal gar- 
den, with all its wealth of blooming plants and 
waving branches of semi-tropical growth, the 
greenhouse makes possible. 


You know there was a time but a few years 
ago when the greenhouse because of its unat- 
tractiveness was located in an obscure spot. 
They are now forming prominent features of 
the ground scheme. 


tit 


| PALM Ce COOL HOUSE WARM HOUSE 
HOUSE | Ds 20x29-4 20xz29-4" 


| 22x22-9 
= 


19x20 


WORK ROOM 


Number 92 A. General purpose compartment with 
Ground Plan Number 92. its banks of glorious blooms as it appeared a 
few days before Easter. 


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LeOw hab & ByU] RIN TH ASM Ce OM (PaAeNe Y: 


Straight and Curvilinear Combinations, Two Compartments 
Plan 93 


ics HE contrasting lines of the straight | roof house costs less than the curvilinear, so a 

a —— and curved roof houses, when com- | combining of the two has that advantage. 
bined, work out in a most effective 
way. The possible combinations 
are practically unlimited. 


It happens that this particular house is the 
hobby of its owner, who takes his recreation 
by giving an hour or so in the morning and after- 

Often such portions of the noon to the care of his flowers. 
houses as are most directly in 
view of the residence will be of 
the curvilinear type, because the 
graceful lines of the curves are 
somewhat more ornamental. Then 
on the other hand, the straight 


Every fall he has a chrysanthe- 
mum show to which his friends 
are first invited and then the pub- 
lic welcomed. The pleasures of 

his greenhouse, as you may well 
Ground Plan Number 93. imagine, are many. 


fe: 
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Number 93 A. When you get in a garden spot 
like this and begin fussing with your flowers, 
all your bothers are forgotten. It is a nerve 
soothing, health giving, enthusing hobby that 
has no equal. 


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Number 93. Erected for Mr. William McCleary, Amsterdam, N. Y. We took the view from this 
side so you could see the cold frame pits at the back which are used for the winter 
storage of the semi-hardy roses, hydrangeas and the like. The entrance vestibule is 
at the opposite end of the curvilinear house and is similar to Design E. on page 88. 


IRON ob Re Aa OE Gah HONS HOS US Sats 


Number 94. Mr. A. N. Lindsay of Rochester, N. Y., is another one who early came to 
the conclusion that the limited ground space of a city property could be 
made many times as productive by devoting a portion of it to a greenhouse 
and have a growing, blooming, garden all the twelve months. 


Plan 94 


Three Compartment House—Straight and Curved Roof 


way prompted its use. The 
sides of the curved roof 
house are also higher than 
thes one jast) referred, to, 
this instance, it is joined being made that way to ac- 
at the gable. It makes a commodate the large rubber 
good plan. The limited Ground Plan Number 94 plants, palms, etc., that are 
ground space between property line and drive- | placed about the grounds in the warmer months. 


N the preceding page 
the straight roof house 
joined the curved one 
on the side, while in 


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Number 94 A. The ornamental curved roof house hides the rest of 
the layout, and as you look out from the residence 
it suggests a charming little “Nature Chapel.” 


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Number 95. 


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Number 95 A. Looking down the walk from the 
work room one can but be impressed with the 
beauty of this circular formed end. 


Number 95 B. You can spend hours in an interior 
like this, and come back to it day after day with 
unending interest and satisfaction. 


By Use ReNGe eA vi 


Grosse Point Farm is a beautiful suburb of Detroit, where nearly everyone 
has a greenhouse. Mr. A. L. Stevens is the satisfied owner of this one. 


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Plan 95 


Another Three Compartment Layout 
Curvilinear and Straight Roofs 


N both the two preceding subjects the 
gables of the curvilinear portions were 
vertical. In some instances for the larger 
palm or plant houses, ends circular in form, 

similar to No. 95 A better fit the situation. 
Surely the result here is highly pleasing. 

As the plant house is in this case used par- 
ticularly for growing the rarer foliage plants 
such as crotons, begonias and endless varieties 
of palms and ferns which do not like the direct 
glare of the sun, the roof is glazed entirely with 
ground glass. 

You will note from the plan that a hot bed 
is shown on the south side of the carnation and 
rose compartments, which reminds us that we 
want to remind you to be sure and have hot 
beds and cold frames in connection with your 
greenhouse because they will take care of many 
things quite as well as the greenhouse and give 
you just that much additional room for other 
things. 


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Number 96. “Something Distinctive’ is what Mr. Craig wanted for his place at 
Sewickley, Pa. This surely answers to the description. 


iPiane96 


Five Compartment House—Curvilinear and Straight Roof 


Oy HIS straight gable, curvilinear 

house with its single curved bay 

and ornamental entrance is a 

decidedly effective break away 
from the general treatment. The straight 
roof house connecting it with the work 
room is divided into two compartments 
and extending from the work room at 
the left is a library or “get-together” 
room for the employees. Beneath the 
rose compartment is a mushroom cellar 
with two tiers of benches extending 
around the sides. You cannot see the 
vegetable and violet pit as shown on 


the plan because the cannas completely : ER ZZ SUSE Na We Laie. eh 
obscure it, but it is practically the same Number 96 A. The curved bay gives a beautiful interior 
as the one on Plan No. 67, page 22. effect and an added spaciousness far beyond what the 


It is entered by steps from the work PI AID 


room and gives considerable additional 
bench room to the house. It is more 
practical however, for the cool loving 
plants or vegetables as the low grade 
of the heating pipes makes it difficult to 
run them at high temperatures success- 
fully. 

For attractiveness, uniqueness and 
balance, as it fits perfectly into the 
corner of the grounds, we doubt if this 
layout can be beaten. 


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“Standard Chrysanthemums.” Hundreds of blooms to 
k a plant, in all the glorious colors of the rainbow. Things 
Crotnd Plan Number 98. like this are worth having and talking about. 


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Number 97. 


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COR Merl Ar IN py, 


Looking down the garden walk of an estate at Riverdale, N. Y. A 


splendid example of the greenhouse and the garden treated in their 


proper relation, one being the complement of the other. 


Plan 97 


Palm House and Wing Treatment—Straight and Curved Roof 


N instances like this, where 
a group of greenhouses 
enters prominently into 
the layout of the grounds 
or garden, the architectural 
emphasis and added orna- 
mentalness secured by the 
high sided, curved roof palm 
house, is very desirable. 
The architectural effects of 
such a grouping are good. 
This one is a plan that could 
be satisfactorily duplicated 


Number 97 A. 


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by making such modifications 
as the features of the grounds 
or the particular desires of 
the owner might prompt. 

The work room could well 
be less extensive, and should 
the lay of the grounds per- 
mit, a duplicate wing might 
be added at its right, making 
possible one or two more 
compartments besides secur- 
ing a perfect balance to the 
layout. 


From here you get the graceful sweep of the palm house roof and the 
effective treatment of the end entrance to the wing house. 


sass 4B) de] F RAM E GRE HEN HtOn Ue smi s 


Number 98. On a beautiful point jutting out into Long Island Sound, at 


Plan 98 


A Parallel Group—Curvilinear and Straight Roofs 


Gy~ HE central rectangular palm house 
with its domed roof, is an imposing 
feature. The wing houses are also 
curvilinear, while 

the parallel houses back 

of them have straight 
roofs. 

At this place a special 
feature is made of the 
show house in the right 
wing, where are exhib- 
ited throughout the year, 
the best specimens of 
flowers from the grow- 
ing houses. 

To get the direct sun- 
light for the plants in 


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Number 98 A. Opening from the palm house at the right 
is this wonderfully interesting tropical house filled 


with plants from many distant lands. 


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; : Greenwich, 
Conn., are the magnificent grounds and residence of Commodore E. C. 
Benedict. The greenhouses are set in the very midst of the garden. 


the rear houses, they were set some dis- 
tance from the ornamental ones in the 
front, and connected by a propagating 


house, which overcomes 
the possibility of one 
house shading the other. 
Here you again have 
the greenhouses in their 
natural environment, the 
central feature of exten- 
sive flower gardens—a 
superb arrangement. 
Being planned so suc- 
cessfully together makes 
this part of the grounds 
a perpetual source of 
pleasure to the owner. 


LORD. & Be eR aN wo Are C2O7 MEP Aa NtayY 


Number gg. This is a decidedly unique group situated at the very base of the Rocky 


Mountains, on the grounds of Mr. A. Coor at Golden, Colo., near Denver. 


Plan 99 


Parallel Connected Houses—Curved and Straight Roof 


N this instance the greenhouses were planned =, 

as compactly as possible to fit into a space 

between the two buildings shown, which 
made it necessary to plan this parallel con- 
nected arrangement. 


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Joined to the houses on the right is the 
brick work room of goodly design, while at 
the left is just visible a portion of the enclosed 
swimming pool, with bowling alley, billiard 
room and gymnasium attached. Heat for this 
group or “Pleasuredrome” is obtained from the 
greenhouse heating system. Ground Plan Number 99. 


SWIMMING POOL 
WORK ROOM 


PALM HOUSE 


WARM GREENHOUSE 
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COOL GREENHOUSE 
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Number gg A. Interior cf the house next the work room which is at the right. Just now 
it is a little “off crop,” and most of the benches are filled with seedlings 
too small to show up. However, there is a fine crop of beans on that 
second bench with the lettuce showing just in front of it. 


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Plans 100, 101 


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Number too. Four years ago Mr. J. B. Coryell of Menlo Park, Cal., walked into our New York office 
one afternoon, and said he had seen our advertisement of a palm house which Mrs. 
Coryell thought to be an ideal tropical garden. The hcuse he referred to was the 
Washington Soldiers’ Home interior which is shown on bottom of page 55. After the 
usual preliminaries of sketches, plans and so on, this is the group of houses Mr. Coryell 
ordered. We are now arranging for another house running at right angles to the 
left. : 


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Number tor. Some time before building the above group, the city of Davenport, Iowa, ordered 
these houses for Central Park. We put them up in the middle of winter when 
the mercury was registering below zero. In addition to what you see, there are 
propagating houses adjoining either side of the work room, which is directly behind the 
palm house in the center. 


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Number 102. Looking along the terrace toward the palm house, on Hon. Whitelaw Reid’s 
estate at White Plains, N. Y. 


Plan 102 


Group of Houses Forming an Enclosed Court 


Oy HIS extensive group of houses, beautifully located on a terrace facing the formal sunken 
gardens, was started many years ago, and ad- 
ditions made from time to time until the plan 
was completed. 

Mr. Reid wanted palms and decorative plants 
a-plenty, so the residence need never be without a pro- 
fusion of them, while to his guests he would serve at 
all times of the year, out of season fruits, such as 
melons, nectarines, peaches and grapes. In short, he 
wanted to defy the seasons and turn winter into sum- 
mer land, and he did. 

To secure compactness and economy of working 
and heating the houses, the main portion was built 
around a court. This court enclosure affords a 
splendid service 
yard, and is a 
well protected 
location for the 
cold frames. 


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Number 102 A. View of the court looking toward entrance gates, between the grapery 
and peach house. The evident spaciousness of this court gives you an idea 
of the very large scale upon which the range is laid out. 


Number 102 B. Entrance to work room. What could be more charming than this brick- 
pillared, glass covered portico, with its clambering roses? The photo was 
taken looking in the opposite direction from the one on the facing page. 


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U7O7RGD & BUS RN SH Ae CEO, Ms ParAmINEAY, 


Wumber 103. Looking across the court toward the palm, chrysanthemum and fruit 
houses. With a large group of houses like these it is impossible for the 
camera to include but a small portion in any one view. 


Planes 


Another Court Layout 


Oy AIS spacious court entirely surrounded by greenhouses and connecting pergola is a most 
charming spot with its beautiful beds of flowers, magnificent bay trees, fine old Japanese 
dwarf trees and the two ever interesting aquatic pools. An ideal layout in every way, 

with numerous houses covering a very broad range of cultural possibilities. 

It is one of the most extensive ornamental greenhouse groups in the country. Everywhere, 
it is known among the gardeners for the beautiful fruit grown, such as grapes, peaches, nectarines, 
plums, pears, apples, melons, figs and pineapples. Not a month of the year without a harvest of 
fruits, cut flowers and potted plants in countless varieties. 


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Number 103 A. The pergola connects the graperies with the nectarine and peach houses. 
Through it you catch a glimpse of the classic porticoed entrance to the 
ie, show house. 


Number 103 B. Standing by one of the aquatic pools, this is a glimpse you get looking 
toward the pergola. 


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Number 104. Straight roof palm house having an elevated landing entrance opening from 
the adjoining building. Erected for Connecticut Agriculture College at 
Storrs. 


Palm Houses 
Straight and Curved Roofs 


LTHOUGH the numerous types of palm houses have already been shown associated in 
the various groups of houses, we want now to speak especially about their interior ar- 
rangements. 
The fact that tropical verdure grows with such rapidity soon causes a palm house 
to become so crowded that the individual beauty of the specimens is lost. 

Walking through such a house, you of necessity look under the foliage and so lose much of 
its wonderful grace and ornamentalness. From an elevation, looking down on the plants, the 
effect however is charming. To secure this view we frequently build palm houses with raised 
entrance lobbies, from which you can look down on the mass of palms and rare exotics as in the 
interior shown at the top of the opposite page. 

Where the palm house adjoins another building, steps from an entrance landing may lead 
down to it, giving the same result as the lobby treatment. 


Number 105. Curvilinear palm house with hip gable and lobby entrance. 


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| Number 106. This is the highly advantageous in- Number 106 A. View looking toward the lobby in 
| terior view of the palms you obtain when look- the same house. Photos were taken at Mr. 
ing at them from a raised lobby. W. G. Spaulding’s place, Prides Crossing, Mass. 


Number 107. Interior of palm house at Soldiers’ Home, Washington, D. C. This is an 
| informal arrangement without benches. The plants are set in banks of 
“rustic” or Tufa stone. The house shown in the illustrations above is 
arranged with this same Tufa stone. 


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Number 108. At Prospect Park, Brooklyn, they have converted their palm house into 
a vast show house, beautiful with flowers and plants the year around. It 
is made especially so at the Christmas and Easter seasons. This view 
shows an Easter exhibit when the central bed terminated in a recumbent 


cross formed of Easter lilies. 
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Number tog. Interior of what is often called a “storage palm house.” 
No particular attempt was made in designing this house to secure 
effects, it being intended solely for keeping in a flourishing condition 
a constant supply of palms for the perpetual decoration of the 
palatial residence of P. A. B. Widener at Ogontz, Pa. 


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Number rro. Aquatic Pools 


If possible to arrange for it, by all means have an aquatic pool in your greenhouse. 
There is always a kind of mystery about water plants and their growth that gives to 
such a pool a never ceasing interest. This one in the group of houses originally 
erected for the late Samuel J. Tilden at Yonkers, N. Y., has been visited by thousands 
to see the wonderful Victoria Regia lily in bloom. You will always find there the 
graceful papyrus and Egyptian lotus. It is informally laid out with winding walks, 
fern and moss covered rockeries, and here and there a small pool filled with gold fish. 


3 Mr Cc! 
Number 111. Moss Banks 


For covering up walls, as for instance in cases where the palm house 
may be joined directly to the work room, moss banks are just the 
thing. They are made by erecting an especially constructed wired 
frame which sets out from the wall 5 or 6 inches. Into this space 
between it and the wall, moss is packed in which fern plants of 
numerous kinds and frequently certain of the begonia family are 
planted. 


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Growing Fruit Under Glass 
Grapes 


under glass. In the few pages here devoted 
to the purpose, we are mentioning only those 
fruits which are the most generally grown, 
but you must not infer that they by any 
} means cover the gamut of possibilities. First 
let us talk about grapes. 

Grapes grown under glass defy all others in beauty 
and meaty lusciousness. Not even the far-famed vine- 
yards of Europe, nor the favorable conditions of Cali- 
fornian climate and soil can produce anything com- 
parable. 

With our vineries you have all the requisites for suc- 
cess under absolutely perfect control. Temperature, 
moisture and nourishment can be regulated ideally. Year 
after year the same results can be obtained, because 
exactly the same conditions can be duplicated. 

The strength which must of necessity go into grapes 
grown outside, to withstand the variable weather con- 
ditions, is under the protection of glass converted into 
meatiness and delicacy of flavor. The evenness and 
beauty of the colorings secured are not the least of the 
advantages. 


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Number 112. This gives you an idea of 
how abundantly grapes grow under 


glass. They are pruned to one stocky Ground Plan No. 113. By having three compart- 
main vine, with short leaders from it ments, for early, medium and late fruiting, you 
and having just enough leaves to keep can have a continuous supply of grapes from 
the vines in health, so allowing the May to Christmas. Vineries and other fruit 
modicum of strength to go directly houses are sometimes built independently, but 
into the fruit. usually are joined to the other greenhouses, or 


connected to them by a glass passage. 


SLAT WALK, 


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Number 115. This section of the curvilinear vin- 
ery shows what is known as a “border” or 
masonry wall and floor, for confining the roots 
and furnishing perfect drainage. Excepting the 


Number 114. Interior of curved roof vinery showing height of the eaves this is the same construc- 
the long length of vines possible, because of the tion as our regular Curvilinear Type Section 
great sweep of the roof. C., explained on page 14. 


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HILE speaking of vineries, we must not lose 

sight of the cool one, which has on its side the 

advantage of not requiring any heat, thus en- 
tirely eliminating the coal bill. Of course, the number 
of varieties that you can grow without artificial heat 
is somewhat limited, but there is a goodly list. You 
will get at least six weeks start over those grown in the 
open. 

In sections where the season is too short to ripen 
fruit outdoors, the cold grapery is admirable. We have 
built several for that purpose in the Green Mountains 
of Vermont. 


The Leanto house makes an admirable cool grapery, 
and if you have a wall or building with a southern ex- 
posure against which it can be built, so much the better, 
as the cost will be considerably less. 


We have in mind a man living at Bennington, Ver- 
mont, who each season raises over half a ton of grapes 
from a Leanto house only 16 feet wide and 50 long. In 
addition to the grapes he also grows countless bedding 
and vegetable plants as well, for early setting out. All 
of this is accomplished without burning a pound of coal. 


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Ground Plan Number 116. Often one compart- Number 117. It takes two years for vines 
ment is given over to the use of peaches and to bear that are three years old when 
nectarines, and one each for an early and late planted. To bridge over this wait of a 
vinery. Such an arrangement is shown in the year, you can grow vines in pots and at 
above plan. once get splendid results. 


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Number 118. A straight roof vinery interior. Not that such a 

vinery of equal width does not produce just as fine grapes as 

the curved roof one, but that the vines of necessity being 

shorter, the fruit is not as abundant. We also build vineries 
of the curved eave type. See section B, page 14. 


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Number 120. Section of a curvilinear 
fruit house showing cross trellis 
arranged for two trees, one on 
either side of the walk. 


Number 11g. The 
branches of this pot- 
ted peach tree were 
so heavily laden they Ys 
had to be supported. Up 
Even at that, this one Yi, 
broke under its bur- 


den of fruit. Photo Number 121. Section of curvilinear 
was taken at Com- house showing cross trellis with 
modore_ Benedict’s, side walk for supporting spread 
Greenwich, Conn. of one tree only. 


Number 122. Cross trellis interior with peaches in bloom. 
Photo taken in February at M. C. D. Borden’s, Oceanic, N. J. 


Ce OMNIFR SA INEeyY 


Peaches and Nectarines 


Oy HERE are two distinct ways of 
growing peaches and nectar- 
ines under glass: dwarf trees 
in pots, and the ordinary size 

trees planted directly in the soil of the 
house. Of the latter there are two 
methods, one to plant the trees along 
the sides and train them on trellises 
along the roof; the other to plant 
them away from the sides and train on 
cross trellising. This last is considered 
by far the best as the light can reach 
all sides of the trees equally, ripening 
and coloring the fruit more evenly. 
More trees can also be planted in the 
same space. For instance, in a 33- 
foot house six trees are all that could 
be planted on the sides, allowing the 
necessary room for future expansion. 
With cross trellising like section Num- 
ber 120, in the same house, twelve trees 
could be grown successfully; or with 
section Number 121 six larger trees 
could be grown. In addition to the 
number of trees so gained, there is also 
the great advantage of being able to 
readily spray them on both sides. 

Large views of cross trellisings 
shown on page 8g. 

Peaches and nectarines grown in 
either of these ways have an exquisite 
delicacy of flavor. The skins are thin 
and take on unthought of beauty of 
colorings. The meat also has a vari- 
able color beauty of its own, is free 
from shreds and always juicy. 


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Number 123. Nectarine tree on side 
trellis. Photo taken at Miss E. J. 
Clarke’s, Pomfret, Conn. The fruit 
was thinned down to one every 7 
inches. Over 500 nectarines are 
picked from this tree each year. 


TAR OPNG yee Rea: GiRen (EeeNe EO Uy Sa HS 


UITE the most interesting way, however, to grow fruit 
under glass, is in pots. Then, too, there are many 
points in its favor: in the first place it is cheaper, as the 
orchard house is filled with the dwarf trees in pots for 
only five or six months of the year and the rest of the time the 
house is available for 
other uses, chrysanthe- 
mums for instance. 

With potted fruit you 
can easily have a greater 
variety, and do not stop 
at peaches and nectarines, 
but add apples, pears, 
plums and cherries as well. 

Each tree takes up 
but little space and it is | nel 
surprising the quantity Number 124. John Ash, Superin- 


; : tendent for Miss E. J. Clarke, at 
of fruit a dwarf tree will Pomfret, Conn., who has had phe- 


yield. : nomenal success in all kinds of 

This is a great point fruit growing under glass, advises 
for the man with the small for those who want to go into 
house as he can have all potted fruit growing extensively, 


: a house like this curvilinear sec- 
the fun of an orchard with tion, 30 feet wide and 150 feet long, 


many varieties of fruit. divided in three compartments. 


FIRST FRUIT HOUSE 
30 KX SO 


Number 125. John Ashe’s reason for advising 
three compartments is because various fruits 
differ in their requirements as to ventilation 
and temperatures and the three compartments 
give you every opportunity to grow a prac- 
tically unlimited number of varieties. 


Number 126. Interior of a curvilinear orchard house with the apple Number 127. Pear tree grown by 
trees in full bloom. Photo taken the 8th of March. In the com- William Turner in M. C. D. Bor- 
partment beyond, the cherry trees were showing little green den’s orchard house. Last year 
cherries and the peach and nectarine blossoms were just dropping it bore thirty pears, 12 to 14 


their pink petals. ounces each. 


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Number 128. After the fruit is picked from the potted trees, they are taken out of the house and 
the pots plunged in the dirt. This gives the wood a chance to “ripen off,” as the 
gardeners say. They are left here until there is danger of frost breaking the pots. 


Number 129. Just after they have had a light freeze outside, they are brought into an unheated 
house, and the pots protected by hay. They need not, however, be placed in a green- 
house, as this man does, as any shelter in which the pots can be kept from breaking 
by freezing, and cool enough to keep the buds from starting, is all that is necessary. 
Along the first of January they are then uncovered and placed in a slightly warmed 
greenhouse for gradually “starting up.” 


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Number 130. Pine apples 


Pineapples grown under glass are quite a novelty in this country, but if 
people only knew how choice the “pines” then are in their succulent meati- 
ness, how free from woodiness and indigestibleness, they would certainly 


be grown in every greenhouse of any considerable size. 


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Number 131. Fi gs 


Figs are another thing that ought to be grown more generally. They are 
not difficult to handle, do splendidly in a small house and yield two crops 


each year—what more could one ask? 


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Number 132. Oranges 


It seems strange that as oranges were the first known fruit to be grown in a green- 
house, several centuries ago by the French, that it should only now be one of the 
novelties in this country. This is a view of J. B. Duke’s orangery at Somerville, 
N. J. The trees in tubs will be removed as those planted directly in the soil grow 
larger. The white spots on the ground are bloom petals that have dropped. 


Number 132A. The walk is higher than the ground level of the 
grove, to give the better view of the trees. 


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Conservatories and Sun Parlors 


Plan 


flowers wants a place for their pro- 
tection through the winter months. 
Although such is exactly the province 
of the greenhouse, still the conserv- 
atory being joined to the residence, 
has the advantage of accessibility. 
Opening from some one of the main rooms, the 
effect of the conservatory can be most charming 
as one catches glimpses of graceful palms, hang- 
ing ferns and color spots of beauti- 
ful blooms. 

Some devote their conservatories 
to growing a general assortment 
of plants, fussing around among 
them much as our grandmothers 
did in their bay windows full of 
geraniums, oxalis and fuchsias. 

Still others use them for show 
places where are brought from the 
greenhouses the finest specimens of 


Number 133. 


dence with its southern exposure, makes an admirable location. 


CONSERVATORY . 
13-4 K 20-6 


Ground Plan Number 


Conservatory at Syracuse, N. Y., belonging to Mr. Percy Roche. 
curved roof and octagon end are highly effective and this L jog in the resi- 


133 


foliage and blooming plants so that all may enjoy 
them without going out in the weather to visit 
the greenhouses. 

Then there is the conservatory living room 
and sun parlor, many interesting examples of 
which you will find in turning the next few 
pages. 

But before doing so, just a word as to their 
construction. They are built of our iron frame 
construction and made in the same thorough 
manner. Designs are of course 
varied to conform harmoniously 
with the dwelling, and so success- 
fully is this done that the impres- 
sion of its being “an afterthought” 
is entirely overcome. As all the 
materials are cut and fitted at the 
factory, their erection is free from 
the usual vexatious building delays 
and consequent inconveniences of 
being torn up indefinitely. 


SIONS 
RESIDENCE 


133. 


The 


teers: 


entered from the library by plate glass doors. 


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LORD & 


Number 134. 


OU can well imagine the de- 
lightfulness of this sun parlor 
with its homey comforts and 
opportunity for numerous 
plants and flowers. Think of its joys 
when all outside is frozen tight and 


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Number 134 A. There 


“SUN, PARLOR 
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Sun parlor of Dr. G. J. Helmer, Nyack, N. Y. 


Plan 134 


134. 


is not the least doubt about its conforming 


C_OrM PPA Ney 


every ray of Old Sol’s warmth and 
cheeriness is at a premium! During 
part of the year when the direct glare 
of the sun is too strong, it is softened 
by staining the roof glass a light 
green. 


to the lines of the residence—in truth, it adds decidedly to its 


attractiveness. 


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Number 135. Conservatory and loggia erected for Mrs. 
W. K. Jewett, Colorado Springs, Colorado. 


Plansies5 


OW charming must be the NS oa | visions of almost unlimited possibili- 
friendly, cheery greeting of the s al ties for the arrangements of conserva- 
plants and flowers as you enter : tories. How successfully the spirit of 


tie tesidence §'through,’ this the residence lines has been preserved 
unique conservatory and loggia! It in this design! 
at once starts going in one’s mind 


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Ground Plan Number 135. 


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Number 135 A. View looking toward the loggia from the conservatory. Imagine its 
beauty when illuminated and the adjoining doors thrown open. 


Ly Oe ReaD & BURR ENG eAaM C807 Ma Po AseNi FY; 


Number 136. Although Mr. C. E. McIntosh of Mount Holyoke, Mass., has extensive 
greenhouses, still it is by the aid of this conservatory living room that 
he doubly enjoys the flowers and plants brought here from the greenhouses. 


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ND now comes the conservatory living room which is but 
the result of a determination of flower lovers to the more 
thoroughly and continually enjoy their plant friends. In it 
you can have the comforts of your living room and enjoy yourself 
and your friends amid luxuriantly thriving plant life. It is bringing 
nature indoors and “getting back to it,” which is quite the right idea. Ree SEs Res 136. 


SUN PARLOR | 
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Number 136 A. What a joy spot for the healthy, Number 136 B. You step from the den on to 
but think what such a retreat would*mean to this little balcony and look down upon the 
the invalid or the convalescent. indoor garden with all its allurements. 


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Number 137. Palm room, tropical house and greenhouse all linked together and joined 
to Mr, J. G. Schmiddlapp’s residence at Cincinnati, Ohio. Part of the 
greenhouse can just be seen at the right of the curved roof tropical house. 


Plan 137 


O17 HIS is an interesting instance of the residence and palm 
room or conservatory being attached to the greenhouses 
by a glass enclosed passage. It is a handy arrangement, 
as all you have to do is go down the passage steps from 

the palm room and you are at once in the big, curved roof tropical 

house. A glass enclosed carnation and rose garden adjoins it 
at the opposite side where you can enjoy seeing your growing 

Grourid Plan Numiber 137. flowers, and have the pleasure of picking them yourself. 


GREENHOUSE 


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Number 137 A. From this side you better see the palm room which opens off the dining room. 


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Number 138. 
Mass. 


ERE is a highly architectural 
conservatory designed in har- 
mony with the colonial resi- 
dence. The somewhat unusual height 
of the sides gives ample room for tall 
palms and fern trees. To overcome 
the shutting off of any of the windows 
in either story, the conservatory was 


High sided domed conservatory at Mr 


Henry Bailey Alden, Architect. 


BAU TRaNeH AM 


Plan 138 


BREAKFAST ROOM 


CONSERVATORY 
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138. 


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. S. W. Winslow’s, North Beverly, 


placed away from the residence and 
connected to it by a charming little 
breakfast room. 

Through the glass partition you 
see the luxuriance of the tropics, and 
catch the soothing tinkling of the 
fountain—quite the ideal breakfast 
accompaniment. 


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Number 138 A. The steps and glass partition look- 
ing towards the breakfast room. 


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Number 139. Glass corridor and conservatory attached to Mrs. Augusta 
Lehman’s residence at Chicago, Ill. E. R. Krause, Architect. 


Plan 139 


GT WO problems were solved most successfully in this instance. 
None of the windows of the residence were sacrificed and a 
limited ground space was utilized to best possible advantage 
without marring the architecture of the glass structure. It 

is rather more than a conservatory, however, being in fact a tropical 

house. The winding glass corridor with its graceful hanging baskets 

of ferns and orchids, is most alluring. Ground Plan Number 139. 


RESIDENCE 


Number 139 A. It is a mysterious tangle of interesting tropical growths, every turn of the 
walk revealing a new wonder. Through one of the openings you catch 
a glimpse of the corridor. 


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LeOuR sD & Boe Rh aaN eee CORN er AwiNGry. 


Number 140. The attractive results of Mrs. G. A. Fuller’s idea of combining a con- 
servatory and Japanese tea room at her country house, Dalton, Pa. 


Plan 140 


HEN the winds are The Japanese Tea Room 
howling and_ the has an outlook of miles and 
snows blowing on i miles over the hills on one 
the Pennsylvania ao side and on the other a glass 


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-| VATORY oo 
hilltops where this residence “  / Bea enclosed garden of never 
is located, you can well URES XG oo. ceasing interest. It is the 
imagine the varied pleasures ON cosy friendliness of the gar- 
of having a conservatory re- Gioia Pica Nuneea 40 den combination that at once 
treat such as this. appeals to one. 


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Number 140 A. The tea room is most attractive where abound the choicest of 
Japanese panelings and furnishings collected by Mrs. Fuller. 


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Number 140 B. The conservatory with its dull gold-lacquered frame work, bronze grille 
and griffin fountain harmoniously reflects the spirit of the tea room. 


Number 140 C. As you sit contentedly on the conservatory 
seat and glance back into the tea room, one can but 
envy Mrs. Fuller the altogether delightful result of 
her unique idea. 


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Leo Rp & BeUPReENG ea ee CAO TM Pea Nesey: 


Swimming Pools 
Plan 141 


N the list of unique features conceived for the refreshment, comfort and entertainment 
of one’s self and guests, the glass enclosed swimming pool is easily one of the most 
delightful of all. We have erected 
numerous pools including three dis- 
tinct types—the one attached directly 
to the residence, forming a conserv- 

atory and pool combined; the one that is de- 

tached; and the one that is convertible from a 

pool to a greenhouse. Of this last let us speak 

first. 

The roof and frame work are constructed so 
they can be easily removed; the sides and bottom 
are cement lined, forming the limits of the pool. 
During winter a false floor with plant benches 
is placed in position and used for a greenhouse. 
In the summer the roof and frame work are re- 
moved, the benches and floor taken out and the 
space filled with water, making an ideal open 
air pool for summer use. 

The glass cover is put on about the middle 
of September and remains on till the first of 
June. The center as you see it is used for the 
taller ornamental plants, while in beds along the 
sides a general assortment of plants are grown. 


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Number 141 A. Interior showing greenhouse false 
bottom and portable benches in place. 


Ground Plan Number 141. 


Number 141. As it looks in the colder months with the roof on and used for a greenhouse. 
A light of glass is left out of the work room for the boiler smoke pipe. 


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Number 142. Glass enclosed swimming pool of Mr. C. H. Matthiesen, at Irvington-on- 
Hudson, N. Y. The dressing room at this end of the pool is a frame 
structure with stucco sides and shingled roof. 


Plan 142 


Oy HIS particular detached pool is located in | with separate sets of dressing rooms for the men 
a sequestered spot on the and the women, toilets, tiled hot 
grounds. It has its own rooms and shower bath; also sepa- 
dressing rooms and is used rate heating apparatus for warming 

from early spring till late fall. Later both the air and the water. 

Mr. Matthiesen intends having heat- Several of the plans provided 

ing installed so it can be used the ample space for large tropical plants 

year around. We have planned and to surround the pool. At our offices 


Ground Plan Number 142. 


erected several glass enclosed pools arranged | are copies of these plans which we will show you. 


Ses 


Number 142 A. This is an outdoor pool of the same size as the one above. We could 
readily enclose such a one with glass. 


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Number 143. Exterior of a combined conservatory and swimming pool at White Plains, N. Y. 
Charles W. Leavitt, Jr., Landscape architect. 


Plan 143 


ND now we come to the 
combined pool and con- 
servatory attached directly 
to the residence, which ar- 

rangement is quite the best of all. 
The illustration on the opposite 
page gives you a rather compre- 
hensive idea of the compartment 
in which the pool is located. 

The tile-lined, marble-bordered 
pool is 33 feet long and 15 feet 
wide; 4 feet deep at one end and 
slopes down to 7 feet at the other. 
The heating pipes on the sides are 
recessed behind polished bronze 
grilles. The heating plant is in 
the adjoining basement. The bal- 
cony opens directly from the resi- 
dence. 

A regular joy spot it is, where 
no matter what the weather, you 
can have your water frolics just 
the same. Think of the refresh- 
ment, the invigoration of a morn- 
ing plunge in a pool of this size. 
Think what it means to take a 
plunge mid surroundings so at- 
tractive on every side. 


RESIDENCE, 


Number 143 A. It is divided into three compartments, the larger 
for the pool and palms—the smaller, one each for roses: and 
carnations. This view of the small compartments was taken 
looking across the pool from the balcony. Ground Plan Number 143. 


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Number 143 B. View taken from the corner near the rose compartment. The ropes around the pool are 
arranged for two heights, one at “high tide” for the “grown-ups,” and a “low tide” for 
“us children.” The photo was taken before the vines had scarcely started, but they 
cover the lattice now and hang in graceful festoons from the balcony and electroliers. 


EROS RD & BeUSR NH AM COS NEP AINA, 


Number 144. For the warmer months the birds are confined by an enclosure of wire sup- 
ported by a light skeleton frame work of steel. Originally it held a fine old 
apple tree which regrettably died. The glass enclosed part at the left is for 
the cool months. Erected for Mrs. F. F. Thompson, Canandaigua, N. Y. 


An Aviary 
Plan 144 


ERHAPS you don’t know how to go about housing during all the 
seasons, the various birds from this and other climes which you 
would take delight in having. We can solve your problem in a 
highly satisfactory, practical way. The result will be decidedly 
attractive. Here is one that harbors several hundred specimens, 
and forms one of the most entertaining points of interest on the 
grounds. 


Ground Plan Number 144. 


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Number 144 A. Interior of the birds’ winter quarters showing Mr. E. A. Watts, aviacultur- 
ist, feeding from his hand one of the shyest birds of the tropical jungles. 


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Glassed-in Porches 


OW that there is an ever increasing tendency 
to have one’s country home in use the entire 
year, the enclosed porch has become a most 
enjoyable feature. Their delightful possi- 
bilities until recently have been but half 
developed, and now they are coming into 
their own as dining and living rooms. They can in most 
cases be heated by the existing residence boiler, the only 
extra expense being that of piping and radiators. 

The combination sash and panels are made so they 
are readily removed and as easily put up, so that you 
can have all the advantages of both a closed and open 
porch. 

We will come to your residence if desired, and take 
all measurements, and design the treatment of the sash 
so they will be in harmony with the lines of the house. 
They are then shipped from the factory, ready for im- 
mediate erection. 

Although these enclosures do not take the place of 
conservatories, still many plants do well in them. As Noma PG ie era 
sun parlors they are a great success. panel sashes in the porch below. 


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Number 145. This charming glassed-in porch is the much enjoyed possession of Mr. 
Leroy Frost at Nyack, N. Y. The outlook from it is a beautiful one for 
miles up and down the Hudson River. 


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The entire porch of Mr. Edward C. Delafield at Riverdale, N. Y., was en- 


closed, and an angle added at the right so it could be directly entered from 
the dining room as well as from the main hall. 


The complete enclosure is of 
course removable for the summer months. 


Number 146. 


Number 147. Mr. F. M. Lupton, Brooklyn, N. Y., has only a portion of his porch en- 
closed. The panel sash were made somewhat elaborate in design to 
harmonize acceptably with the treatment of the porch. 


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This enclosure with its hinged sash, erected for Mr. 


Number 148. 
Stamford, Conn., makes the really ideal outdoors living 


room. 


Number 148 A. The sash are hinged to each other so they can 
be folded back, giving full openings for the summer months, 
and are easily closed to keep out the storms and the keen air i 


of fall or early spring. 


Number 148 B. The wood work is dark oak, the floor laid with 
rich red tiles, giving an effect most restful, while the enclosed 


feature conveys a feeling of pleasing seclusion. Palms, hang- 
ing ferns and blooming window boxes make it altogether one 
of the most enjoyable of retreats for all seasons of the year. 


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Number 149 A. The vine covered pergola of Mr. Number 149 B. But along the latter part of 
L. B. Craw at Irvington, N. Y., as it looks in September when Jack Frost gets a little too 
the summer months with the panel sash off. aggressive, the panel sash are put on. 


sae Ze tgs. fi 
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Number 149 C. Enclosed it becomes a most delightful little 


glassed-in living room, quite the ideal place for a friendly 
cup of tea. 


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Number 149 D. It is a couple or three steps down irom the 
dining room, but its sunny allurement beckons you from the 
living room away across the hall. 


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Plant Beds and Tables 


HE Plant Beds are made with deep 
sides for holding the soil in which 
the plants are directly grown. 


For this purpose we have finally 
evolved an indestructible, practical 


Cast Iron Bed. There is no wood in it to rot out, 


or tile bottoms to break, and it is a well known 
fact that cast iron simply glazes over with a 
slight surface crust and then remains unaltered 
for an indefinite period. 


They are neat in appearance and because of 
less thickness required for the sides, have more 
available plant space than benches with wood 
or slate sides. The bottom is perforated so that 
the proper amount of drainage is provided. The 
beds are supported by pipe legs set in disk foot 
pieces. 


Tables. They have narrow sides and are in- 
tended only for holding potted plants in palm 
houses and conservatories. No soil is placed 
on the tables. 


These tables are made with a complete, gal- 
vanized angle iron frame which is joined together 
by cast iron fittings and supported by pipe posts 
set in disk foot pieces. 

The tops are usually of planed slate, three 
quarters of an inch thick. Board tops of dressed 
cypress, however, are quite as practical as long 
as they last, and can be easily replaced. 


Number B.150. Wiring Frames secured to Cast 
Iron Bench. Wires are stretched between 
these frames at opposite ends of bench, for sup- 
porting roses, carnations, etc. 


Number A.150. This gives you an idea of the neat 
finished appearance of the Indestructible Cast 
Iron Beds. 


Number C.150. Plant tables in a palm house. The 
slate tops are covered with cinders, pebbles or 
coke to hold the moisture. 


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Work Rooms 


A) ORK ROOMS are for the purpose of having a convenient place to do the potting, 
and to hold the bins for storing soil during the winter months. In cases of extensive 
ranges where the potting rooms are provided with soil bins, packing space and tables 
for shipping flowers, refrigerator, man’s room and so on, we call them “service build- 
ings.” In either case they are usually placed over the boiler cellar and coal bin. Fre- 


quently it is possible to utilize part of the garden house or other building and place 
a cellar under it, making every bit as good an arrangement. 


Sometimes a part is divided off for the storing of garden tools, or an additional room planned, 
either upstairs or down, which is often used for office or sleeping room. When it forms one of 
a group of buildings requiring a similar architectural effect, we design it accordingly. It is 
possible to make these little houses exceedingly attractive, and fit them up elaborately, with tile 
floor, slate benches, pot racks, toilet, and even an ice box. If desired, we will gladly design and 


build them for you; we generally advise keeping them inexpensive, and place the extra money 
directly in the greenhouse. 


Number 150. You can get an idea from this how we arrange the moderate priced ones, 
with bench, soil bins and an open cellar (protected by iron railing) for 
the boiler. If you intend doing any of the greenhouse work yourself, you 
will become greatly attached to these compact little houses with their 
casement windows, opening over your potting bench—it means many a 
pleasant hour spent there. The exterior of this one is Number 151 shown 
on top of opposite page. 


I RON BoR TAs MoE 


Number 151. This is a comparatively inex- 


pensive little work room, which although 
very simple in design, only goes to show 
how attractive they can be made with 
weathered cypress shingled sides and white 
trim. It is the same design as used in con- 
nection with Plan 63, page 18. 


GEReE SEN, HeOeUrsekas 


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Number 154. A pleasing stucco treatment. 


Simplicity still the keynote. It belongs to 
that beautiful, all curvilinear group so at- 
tractively shown on page 4o. 


Number 152. This one shows how different 


an effect the addins of more overhang to 
the roof, diamond-paned windows and green 
shingled sides can give to a work room that 
is otherwise practically the same as the one 
above. 


Number 155. With the greenhouse foundation 


of brick, the work room when constructed 
of the same material can be worked out ina 
very pleasing way. Tnis one is shown in 
the Unit System on page 9. 


Number 153. Yet another variation of treat- 
ment with the same simplicity of lines pre- 
served. On page 34 you can see another 
view and how effective it looks when at- 
tached to the greenhouse by a connecting 
passage house. 


Number 156. A good example of a large two 


story service building designed in keeping 
with the importance of the range. The 
walls of the potting room and the founda- 
tions of the greenhouses are built of the 
same weathered mountain stone. 


Onn & BoUSRENS Hea Mae Ce Oe Map PAa Ney 


Number 157. To show you just how the hot water pipes are arranged when placed under 
the side and center benches, the photograph was taken before these benches 
were in place. The fittings at the ends of the cast iron pipe coils, on either 
side of the door and also between the pipes in the center, have air chambers 
above the water line of the coils. They are our Patented Headers which 
automatically liberate the air from the system and so prevent its hindering 
a perfect and rapid circulation of the water. 


The Heating 


PON the right installation of your heating plant, depends much of the success of your 
greenhouse. Its perfection involves the right amount of radiating surface so distri- 
buted as to insure best growing conditions and the desired temperature in each com- 
partment. In order to obtain these results, you must have a boiler of proper size and 
capacity; ample mains for carrying water to the coils; sufficient grade to insure rapid 
circulation and even distribution. The coils must be arranged to prevent all air locks, 


and so planned that the temperature in each compartment shall be 
under proper control. 


On the face of it, these problems seem simple enough, but as 
greenhouse heating is different from any other, in that it is all 
longitudinal work, with but little altitude, the realization of its 
special requirements and the ability to meet them, only come 
through experience. 


The fact that we have met and mastered these problems for 
more than fifty years is sufficient guarantee that we will give you 
a perfect working heating plant. 


The hot water system of heating is preferred because of its 
capacity to hold the desired night temperatures without the 
expense of a night fireman. It gives a more equable heat than 
steam. The hot water pipes being run at a lower temperature, the 
heat is less intense and does not dry out or bake the soil in the 
benches as with steam. 

Number 158. Burnham Square Sectional Greenhouse Boiler, set in the 


work room cellar. This is only one of our Burnham Series. We have a 
catalog showing them all, which we will be glad to send you. 


Number 158 


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The Boiler To meet the exacting de- 
mands of greenhouse heat- 


ing we make a special sectional boiler called 
the Burnham, which, because of its economy 
and ease of operation, has become the standard 
of greenhouse heating. Being made in sec- 
tions, it can readily be enlarged at any time 
to take care of additions that may be made to 
the greenhouse. 

To further insure its economy, the sides 
and top are carefully covered with asbestos 
cement, which being a non-conductor, pre- 
vents the radiation of the heat in the cellar. 

Unless otherwise arranged for, the boiler 
is placed in the cellar under the work room 
and connected to the chimney by a galvanized 
smoke pipe. 


The Heating Coils These consist of 
several 3)4-inch 


cast iron pipes placed on cast iron pipe chairs 
under the benches, and coupled to the boiler 
by supply and return pipes, which we call \ 

mains. Our special automatic air vents or ' 
headers, as illustrated on this page, are placed ONEREIOW FEED PIPE “TO BOILER 
wherever necessary to prevent air locks that 
otherwise retard or utterly check the circu- 


Number 159. This is our special cast iron Sectional Ex- 
pansion Tank fitted with water gauge. It is placed in 


lation. : : the work room high enough to bring the water line 
To control the temperature in the var1ous well above all heating pipes. It can readily be enlarged 
compartments of the greenhouse, cast iron, at any time. ; 


brass mounted valves are placed between the 
supply pipes and the coils, thus controlling 
the circulation. 

The joints between the various pipes and 
fittings are rust caulked which form a tight 
joint. 

' ' special coils, 
With Propagating Beds ihe anegatne 
the regular heating coils, are used under the 
propagating beds to secure the temperature 
in the sand best suited for making rapid root 
growth. 


Number 160. One of our Cast Iron 
brass mounted valves which is used 
to control the supply of water to 
the coils in the various compart- Number 161. Near-by view of our Patented Automatic 
ments. Header for liberating the air from the heating coils. 


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Entrances and Vestibules 


ESTIBULES are not always essential, still they often serve the purpose of protecting 
tender plants from the direct chill of the outside air, and unquestionably add much 
to the architectural effect of the house. 

Much thought should be given to their consistent treatment so that they will 
conform harmoniously with the greenhouse without the sacrifice of utility to design. 


Design A. This 
type of door with 
its small lights of 
glass and glazed 
side panel treat- 
ment is a depart- 
ure from the 
usual that works 
out most effec- 
tively. 


Design B. Where 
an ornamental en- 
trance is desired 
without undue ex- 
pense, this open 
vestibule has its 
good points. 


Design C. Side 
entrance ofa 
p ure Colonial 
design that is es- 
pecially adaptable 
for curvilinear 
houses. 


Design D. A 
palm house en- 
trance with a sec- 
ondary hood 
effect that is 
certainly most 
charming. 


Design E. In its 
frank simplicity 
lies the charm of 
this vestibule. 


Design F. A ves- 
tibule of this de- 
sign is more 
adaptable for the 
straight roof or 
curved eave 
houses. 


Design E. 


Design F. 


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Wiring Frames for Fruit Houses 


Gr” HESE frames or trellises are used to 
support the fruit trees as described in 
detail on page 60. 

They are made of galvanized angle 
iron, strongly bolted, and covered with heavy 
galvanized wire stretched from opposite sides 
in a diagonal direction. 


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Number 161. 


the soil. 


Wiring Frame with center walk. Photograph 
was taken just after the young trees had been planted in 


The frames are bolted to the roof purlins and 
cast iron sills and the arch posts secured to 
galvanized foot pieces set in the soil. 

The center slat walks are supported at inter- 
vals by a galvanized pipe frame which insures 
the walk always being level and keeps it away 
from the soil. 


Number 162. View in the same house 
looking straight down the center 
walk. 


Tufa Stone for Rustic Effects 


Gy HIS is a stone of peculiar sponge-like 
formation, that is most attractive for 
banking up around and in the center bed 
of palm houses; the lining of aquatic 


pools, building informal mounds; screens for 


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Number 163. 
palm house at Greystone, N. Y. 


heating pipes and other rustic effects. In warm 
moist conditions, ferns, grasses and other in- 
teresting growths spring from it luxuriantly. 

In the interior shown on page 55 it is used 
exclusively. 


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Glimpse of tufa stone used in the center of the Samuel Untermeyer 


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Side Wall Constructions 


These sketches show in a general way the various forms of 
side wall construction used in greenhouses. 


NUMBER S&8.W.A. Iron 
posts set in concrete footings, 
with double boarded sides, form 
the foundations for this type. 
An _ Ice-Clearing Angle Iron 
Plate is used at the eave. 

If side ventilating sash are 
desired under the eave, they are 
hinged directly to the plate. 
Shingles are often used instead 
of the outside boarding. 


NUMBER S.W.B. This dif- 
fers from the one above in hav- 
ing a Cast Iron Gutter at the 
eave in place of the Angle Iron 

Number S.W.A. Plate. The water collected by 
the gutters is carried away by 
means of drains. 

When side ventilation is de- 
ne sired, the sash may be hinged 
<< ; directly to the gutters which are 
provided with a flanged stop. 


Number S.W.D. 


NUMBER S8.W.C. Masonry 
walls (either of brick, stone or 
concrete) are used in this type in 
place of boarded sides. The 
walls are capped by cast iron 
sills to which the rafters are 
bolted. Ventilation same as in 
Number S.W.B. This, of course, 
is the most durable type of wall. 


NUMBER S.W.D. In the 
Curved Eave Type the gutter is 
made in combination with the 
Cast Iron Sill which caps the 
wall. Further description of the 
eave construction is given on 
page 14. Ventilation is secured 
by panel openings in the walls. 
These openings are screened to 
keep out animals, etc. 


Number S.W.B. 


NUMBER S.W.E. Palm 
houses are usually constructed 
with high sides having pilasters 
and the essential ornamental 
mouldings, with large stationary 
side sash and transom ventilat- 


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ig ing sas 
sareuesneereses The cast iron gutter is placed 
rs at the eave. The masonry walls 
- are capped by cast iron sills and 


the rafters bolted to them. 

The design of the glazing in 
the transom sash and sides may 
Number S.W.C. be varied. Number S.W.E. 


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Range of three parallel houses connected by passage houses in the center. 


Erected for Mr. J. W. Paul, Radnor, Pa. 


What Our Sectional Iron Frame House Is 


Number SDG. This cut shows all the members that go to 
make one complete section of our Sectional Iron Frame 
Greenhouse on masonry foundations. The right hand half 
shows only the iron members, while on the left side not 
only is all the iron in place, but the small cypress glazing 
bars, rafter caps and sashes, all ready for the glass. 


Number SDC. And this shows the Curved Eave House 
treated in the same way as Number SDG. You see the 
construction of the two types is practically identical save 
that the gutter is placed in combination with the sill on 
top of the wall and each curved bar is reinforced by 
metal underneath. 


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UR Sectional Tron 
Frame Greenhouse is 
the culmination of an 
experience of this firm 
and its founders cover- 
ing half a century and 
more. 

It has been de- 
Development veloped and per- 
fected through our constant efforts 
to secure houses of greater dura- 
bility and to meet the demands of 
the gardeners for more light. The 
larger the amount of light admitted 
the greater the quantity of the 
blooms obtained, besides securing 
an unequaled perfection in their 
shape and coloring. For the same 
reason, the fruit acquires an added 
delicacy of flavor and beauty of 
finish, while the vegetables have 
that much sought for crispiness, 
possible only with quick growth. 


How a Sec- One section is 
formed by setting 


tion 1S Built up two spans of 
rafters 8 feet, 4 inches apart, at 
either end of two lengths of cast iron 
sills. The cross framing between 
these two spans of rafters consists 
of the gutters at eaves, and purlins 
between the eaves 2nd ridge. These 
latter are placed the right distance 
apart to carry the roof bars. 

Another section may be added 
by setting up one more span of 
rafters 8 feet, 4 inches further along 
with cross framing, and so on until 
you have the required number of 
sections for the length of the house. 
The strong, but light supporting 
frame is now ready to receive the 
ridge, small roof bars, ventilating 
sash and the six spaces of 16 inch 
glass. 


PaOrk es & 


The strength of this construction is 
Strength in its steel bar rafters placed thin 
edge to the light and framed between with steel 
angles for purlins—and in the method of secur- 
ing the rafters to the sills at the joints, where 
two sections of sills meet, and to the gutters in 
the same manner—so that the sections of sills 
and gutters on either side of each span of rafters 
are united to the rafters as if they were part of 
them, making the entire iron frame of rafters, 
sills, gutters and purlins as one piece. 


“1: The alternating of iron and wood 
D urability as seen in our sections, makes 
an unusually strong construction, as years of 
experience have taught us that wooden sash bars 
are more durable and satisfactory for the pur- 
pose than any other materials and prevent glass 
breakage that is bound to occur from expansion 
and contraction if metal glazing bars are used. 

Aside from the usual repainting, the matter 
of repairs is a minor one, for the small roof bars 
are fastened at the ends with iron clasps, and 
the supports are all on iron, making dry joints 
everywhere insuring long life. 


: While attaining durability, we 
Lightness have Teeeceedaate light a es 
fold, as each frame work member of our Sectional 
Iron House of to-day is but a fraction of the size 
of its corresponding member in the old time 
house and casts much less shade. Every unnec- 
essary member is eliminated to admit all possible 
light. Our development of the Curved Eave is 
a decided advance for still greater lightness. 


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. Architecturally, our Sec- 
Attractiveness tional Iron Frame Green- 
house has no equal. Each design is prepared 
with an idea of good proportion, and general 
shapeliness of contours, the keynote being sim- 
plicity of lines. 


As the rafter caps and pilasters, which are 
larger than the glazing bars, are united with the 
rafters at the end of each section, this point is 
accented, giving an effect of broad spacing 
throughout the entire roof and sides, not obtain- 
able where the glazing bars are of one size and 
no rafters are used. 


The design of the gutter or eave plate when 
used, gives to the eave a pleasing architectural 
emphasis. 


. . This construction is so 
Quick Erection scientifically worked out, 
that the labor of preparing materials and erect- 
ing is reduced to a minimum. It is not a house 
that has to be cut and fitted by hand, on the job, 
but the entire frame is passed through a line of 
machines in our factory, where it is cut, shaped, 
punched, fitted and primed, ready for immediate 
erection. When the materials are delivered to 
you, it is merely a matter of bolting up the iron 
parts and fastening the screws. The time and 
expense of erecting is thus greatly reduced, prac- 
tically equalizing the advance in cost of the Iron 
Frame House over the wooden structure. 


Description of Parts 


These sills cast in lengths 
of 8 feet 4 inches, form a 
protection to the walls and 
are the base of construction 
to which the iron rafters are 
bolted. They are cast with 
a rabbet to form a stop for 
the side sash. 

All joints between lengths 
of sills or at the corners 
have milled faces, making a perfect fit. 


Cast Iron Sills 


The Wrought Steel Rafters are 
Rafters placed eee 8 feet 4 inches apart, 
and vary in size from % inch thick by 3 inches 
wide, to the larger sizes according to how large 
the house is. 

These rafters start from the cast iron sills and 
extend to the ridge where they are united by a 
bracket, to which the ridge is also fastened. 


92 


On our standard sill and 
gutter houses the gutter is 
placed at the eave and bolted 
to the rafters at that point, 
forming an important 
strengthening member to the 
frame work as well as a con- 
duit for the water. They are 
made of cast iron in lengths 
of 8 feet 4 inches, and being 
exposed to the inside warmth 
of the house, causes the snow 
and ice to melt, keeping them 
free. The roof bars are se- 
cured to them by cast iron 
sash bar clasps. The side 
ventilating sash when used, 
are hinged to the under side 
of the gutter. 


Gutters 


Used on our Stand- 
ard Sill and 
Gutter Houses 


Used on Curved 
Eave Houses. 


F RAM E 


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. Angle Iron Purlins extend laterally 
Purlins from rafter to rafter, between eave 
and ridge, the proper distance apart to carry the 
roof bars, and are bolted to the rafters. The sash 
bars and drip header rest on the purlins and are 
screwed directly to them. 


. The cypress ridge is made in two 
Ridge pieces. The main or lower member is 
tongued to fit the groove of the weather cap 
insuring an even overhang on each side as a 
weather protection. The main member is milled 
out to receive the ventilating sash or glass, mak- 
ing a weather proof joint. The top of the ridge 
is finished with a roll moulding or an architec- 
tural iron cresting which ever is desired. 


Each rafter is provided with 
Rafter Caps a small cypress cap on which 
the glass is set, thus avoiding the direct metal 
contact and the consequent glass breakage, which 
would be caused by its expansion and contrac- 
tion. An important feature of the cap is the 
insulation it furnishes to the rafter, protecting it 
from heat in summer and cold in winter. The 
groove in the cap fits over the rafter, thus bring- 
ing the rafters and sash bars into perfect align- 


ment. 


Upon the bars the glass is laid 
Roof Bars by being bedded in putty and 
held in place by special glazing nails. The bars 
are of cypress 154 6”x 17%”, and are placed between 
the rafters, five to a section if 16 inch glass is 
used; four if 24 inch glass. 

Each roof bar has a drip groove on both sides 
to carry away the condensation that would other- 
wise be conti:.ually dripping on the plants. 

In the Curvilinear or Curved Eave Houses the 
bars and rafter caps are cut to the curve desired, 


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from the solid wood, to insure against springing 
out of line. 

On Curved Eave Houses the bars are rein- 
forced at the curve by a special casting. This 
reinforcement is also a clamp splice, uniting the 
end of the bars securely, making strong weather 
tight joints. 


When the gutter is placed 
Sash Bar Clasp at the eaves, the roof bars 
are secured to it by Cast Iron Clasps making a 
rigid, dry joint. A similar clasp is used to 
fasten the bars and the rafter caps to the drip 
header at the bottom of the ventilating sash. 


. The drip header is a_ small 
Drip Header cypress member which caps the 
header purlin. It forms a seat for the ventilating 
sash, and being made in the form of a gutter, 
takes care of condensation from sash. It is 
grooved for the glass. The sash bars are fast- 
ened to it with our patent clasps. 


Partitions Glass gables are formed at the 
free ends of the houses. Parti- 

and Gables tions, unless for some reason to 
the contrary, are planned to 

a go under the rafters, and framed 

to them, making the length of 

GaniesBar each compartment a multiple of 


8 feet 4 inches. When other- 
wise placed a special framing is necessary, which 
adds to the expense and detracts from the ap- 
pearance of the house. 

Partitions and Gables are substantially framed, 
and glazed practically the same as other parts of 
the structure, and furnished with door frames, 
doors, bars, etc. 


Galvanized iron leaders are attached 
Leaders to the gutter outlets, and pass down 
inside the greenhouse between the wall and the 
bench, connecting with the upright of drain. 
Carrying the leaders inside the house prevents 
stoppage by freezing. 


14: The amount of ventilation re- 
Ventilating quired varies with the kind of 
plants to be grown and also the size of the house. 
It is usually obtained by opening the sash at the 
ridge, but if more than this is required, side sash 
are also used. 

In the case of the Curved Eave House, wall 
ventilators with metal frames set in the masonry 
walls are substituted for side sash. 


In OF RED & 


Sash All sash are constructed of cypress, 

blind mortised and tenoned together, 
and all joints doweled and thoroughly white 
leaded. All sash are made and put together 
before shipment, and as little wood used in the 
construction of same as is consistent with 
strength. 


The ventilating sash at the ridge are formed 
in a continuous line for each compartment, con- 
nected by galvanized iron caps which cover the 
joints. 


Doors are placed in the gables and 
Doors partitions where openings are indi- 
cated on plan. They are made of cypress with 
glass panels in the upper part and wooden panels 
in the lower part, all joints being blind mortised 
and tenoned, doweled and thoroughly white 
leaded. 


The glass used is double thick, care- 
fully selected A quality in suitable 
lengths and widths. It is bedded in special 
greenhouse putty of our own manufacture. Un- 
less otherwise specified, all glass is clear. Ground 
glass is generally used for roofs of palm houses 
and conservatories, and other tropical houses. 


Glazing 


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In the gables of the house the glass is laid | 


with lapped joints, each lap being about % inch 
thick. 


In curvilinear houses the glass is bent to fit 
the sharp curve of the roof. 


In curved eave houses it is bent to fit the 
curve of the eave. 


verre The entire frame work receives 
Painting three coats of paint as follows: 

The iron work receives a coat of red lead 
and oil before shipment. The wood work is 
primed by the “soaked in” method of immersing 
in our dipping tank of oxide of iron and pure 
linseed oil; it is then allowed to drain and dry— 
no part is brushed off—every point is thoroughly 
reached and penetrated. 


After the frame work is erected, all iron and 
wood members receive a coat of our Ideal Green- 
house White Lead and tank settled pure linseed 
oil. This Ideal Lead is our own brand, and pre- 
pared especially for painting greenhouses. 


The third or finishing coat is applied to the 
entire structure with this same lead and oil, after 
the glass is set. 


Heating pipes receive one coat of black in oil. 


The various members entering into the con- 
struction of the plant tables and beds, requiring 
preservation, are properly painted. 


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CeORMs PatAsN ey. 


Vestibules These are furnished when shown 
4 on the plan; described and illus- 
and Hoods trated on page 88. 


Plant Tables and Beds 
See page 83. 


. The arrangement of the heating 
Heating apparatus is described on pages 86 
and 87. The temperature in each compartment 
is specified according to the kind of plants to be 
grown. 


Wiring Frames and Slat Walks 
See page 89. 


W ork Rooms 
See pages 84 and 85. 


. A system of galvanized plumbing 
Plumbing is laid in each house for cold 
water service, and supplied with stand pipes and 
brass hose bibbs at convenient points for gar- 
deners’ use. The supply pipe is carried just out- 
side foundation walls, ready for owner to con- 
nect with water main. 


: The following items are excepted 
Exceptions from our Spechatts and tai 
mate unless there is a special understanding in 
writing, to the contrary: 

Masonry work, which includes foundations, 
cellar and trench walls, chimney, cement walks, 
drains, as well as piers for support of the pipe 
columns, benches and heating coils; filling and 
excavating; bringing water supply main to site; 
cartage of material to and from nearest railroad 
station and site; flashing where greenhouse is 
built against another building. 

After the order is placed with us we furnish 
without charge, the necessary working plans, 
details and specifications for the guidance of the 
mason in erecting foundations, etc. 


Alternate For practical grow- 
ing houses our Iron 


Construction Post Foundation 


with Double Boarding is often sub- 
stituted for masonry walls, and our 
Patented Angle Iron Eave Plate for 
the gutter at the eaves. Shingled 
sides can be substituted for the double 
boarding if desired. 

This construction saves nearly the 
first cost of the masonry walls and is 
practical and durable. It is the same 
construction that we have used for years in build- 
ing the large commercial houses. 


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Sections 


tion—additional lines can be added if 
ment of heating pipes for a gen- 
eral greenhouse; they vary accord- 
ing to the purpose of the house. 


All the houses shown except the palm houses 
on page 97 and 98 are equipped with Indestruct- 
ible Cast Iron Beds and Tables. These are pro- 
vided unless other kinds are desired. The Tables 
shown in the palm houses have Galvanized Iron 
Frames with wood or slate tops. 


SECTION Sr. Straight Roof, two bench house with 
center walk. The masonry walls are capped with Cast 
Iron Sills. The eave gutter is Cast Iron. 


SECTION Sz. Straight Roof, three bench house 
with two walks. Same construction as Sr. 


HE following ten sections show the arrangement of walks, benches and ventilation in 
houses of standard widths. The arms inside the house indicate the lines of ventila- 


desired. Section S2 shows the usual arrange- 


SECTION S83. Straight Roof Even Span house 
divided into a three quarter span and leanto compart- 
ment, and having Wrought Iron Post Foundations set 
in concrete footings and double boarded sides. See 
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SECTION S4. Straight Roof Parallel Connected Houses 
(ridge and furrow roof) with three benches and two walks. 
These houses are used where space is limited. A wide Cast 
Iron Gutter is between the houses—otherwise constructed same 
as Section S1. 

SECTION Ss5. Straight Roof, Two Bench Leanto—an 
alternative for the Leanto shown in Section S3, page 95. 

SECTION S6. Curved Eave House with four benches and 
three walks. Walls are masonry, capped by a combination 
Cast Iron Sill and Gutter. Where side ventilation is desired 
it is supplied by wall panels under the benches. 

SECTION S7. Curved Eave House with four benches and 
five walks. Construction same as S6. 


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Section $8. Eighteen foot Curvilinear Roof House with three benches and two walks, 


for use as a show or general plant house. Other standard widths are 18 feet for two 
walks, and 25 feet for three walks. 

The walls are of masonry capped by cast iron sills. The cast iron gutter is set at 
the point where the straight side ends and the curve of the roof begins. The sash 
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three quarter inch planed slate tops. The center is left open for direct plant- 
ing in the soil, and to accommodate tall plants and trees in pots and tubs. For 
description of side wall construction see page 90, Number S.W.E. 


The straight roof palm house would be constructed the same, differing only in the 
shape of the roof. 


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